evidence of having them. In this way employers believe they can bring in new staff that are likely to do well in the company. If you know the competencies you can make sure you have found examples of where you have shown them and use the CAR approach to giving the answers. This can all be done and rehearsed before the interview. Competency Based Interview Questions These are questions that look for evidence of where you have shown or used a competence. They differ to questions that ask you how you might approach a problem or situation. You can answer these in a theoretical fashion having never faced the situation. Whereas for competency based questions you are asked to give an actual example of where you have used the competence and what you did. Competency based questions tend to be used fairly extensively by large organisations in applications and interviews. They may form the majority of the interview Example Questions Describe a time when you have had to recover from a setback to achieve a deadline. What would you do differently as a result? Drive for Results) Can you describe a time when you used your creativity to help you achieve something (Creativity) Tell me about a time where you have had to plan and organise an event or project. (Planning and Organising) Example Answer (Drive for Results) The example answer which follows is not a full answer but demonstrates how to use the CAR approach to structure your answer.