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You’Re hiRed! inteRview anSweRS Planning to achieve results TASK
Broad-based commercial thinking THOUGHT
Innovation and change THOUGHT
Team leadership PEOPLE
Analytical thinking THOUGHT
Developing self and others PEOPLE
Operational implementation TASK

If you have access to the competencies in advance, you can prepare by doing
this clustering yourself. This will pay off during the interview in terms of your
ability to quickly identify the focus of the question. Once you have clustered
the competencies you can start to think about your best examples and
illustrations to get across the relevant attributes.

The table below gives some examples of organisational competencies that we
have clustered for you.

task thought People
Sales focus Change orientated Team leadership
Planning and Creativity and Collaborative working
organising innovation
Commitment to results Strategic thinking Engaging others
Energy and drive Broad-based business Networking and
thinking communicating
Achievement Provides vision and Emotional intelligence
orientated direction
Commercially driven Creative problem Empathy / developing
solving rapport
Delivering results Analytical thinking Motivating others
Project planning Thinks outside the box Building and developing
teams
Project management Exploring new ideas Influencing and
persuading
Resource Inventive and Team working
management imaginative
Target orientated Judgement and Interpersonal skills
decision making

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