keynet10
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- 3 Feb 2019
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Sounds like they may have changed the interview and the 8 x NTS that have been widely mentioned in various posts on here have been updated or at least phrased very differently.
My personal view of this type of interview has always been that it does not actually determine the best people for the job, an outgoing and highly confident person who has a skill of memorising questions and answers can easily cope with these interviews for these reasons alone and in my opinion does not actually mean they will be better at the job than someone who is not as good at these particular attributes. This does not mean that person is going to be good at the job and it logically makes no sense whatsoever, how can the same interview technique and questions (eg NTS using STAR) be as effective for a railway job as it would be for an area sales reps job?
Are we saying that before this modern interview technique was adopted by HR's across the country and in many sectors that they were consistently recruiting the wrong staff because of how they interviewed them, i think not.
I honestly believe that the whole point of these questions is to see how people react to the pressure, I doubt there is anyone who would have answers prepared for these questions. I think the idea is to see how the candidates react knowing how difficult the questions are.
For example:
Provide an example how you logically overcame obstacles communicating a difficult message to a group whilst being part of a team!!!
That to me is 3 questions:
Communicating a difficult message.
Obstacles whilst using teamwork.
Communicating to a group.