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Job INTERVIEWING BY COMPETENCIES WHAT IS TO INTERVIEW BY COMPETENCIES? |
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The evolution of business and its complexity has enriched the traditional concept more than desired in order to fill the position. Nowadays, an accountant, besides their vast technical knowledge, must have orientation with the internal or external client, aspect that was not common a couple of years ago. Thus, the necessity of detection of this and other competencies that we are going to call managing competencies has sharpened. Due to their importance and incorporation to the profiles, we have to analyze how they are considered in the section process. Interviewing by competencies if part of the selection process, very important indeed; however, you must remember that when a company needs an expert in a determined software, they will first find out about the specialty and only after that, the competencies; when a bank needs a manager for a branch in the province, they will try to identify the person who knows the location and the business better. Therefore, working by competencies – and specially, interviewing by competencies – implies that we will first pay attention to the technical knowledge they vacant position requires. Once we are convinced that the minimum requirements are covered, we will work over the competencies, either in the same interview or another. (We have dedicated Chapter 10 of this book to this point in particular.) We have called knowledge competencies to the techniques and management competencies to the ones we talk about in this part of the book. |
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The required competencies are different according to the specialties and the levels of the functions in the general scheme of the company. Sometimes, one same competencies, as for example the capacity of leadership, can be necessary in young professionals as well as in maximum executives, but its importance won’t be the same in the two levels. Others, as the learning capacity for example, can be a requirement in one level – as the initial one - and not in the other, as the directive. |
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In a directed interview the different techniques we present can be combined. Nothing stops you from beginning with an open question, tell me about your work history, and once you already have an idea about the technical knowledge and the necessary work experience to cover this position, go through interviews by competencies over the model we suggest in the following chapters. |
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