I would be ungrateful if I don’t come back to say thank you. After applying to 35 civil service jobs, 6 interviews and 2 reserve list. Finally got an offer for an EO role. Thank you
Hey Jack, I had a Civil Service job interview, used your videos to revise, and got the job! Thank you for your knowledge I really appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos. Take care dude.
Yep. I had an interview with The Coastguard. It went great. It was relaxed, honest, plenty of examples, we got on well. I later got my score: 1 out of 5. It's all about telling them what they want to hear, not about telling them the truth. Probably why our Civil Service is full of so many useless idiots.
@@jsmith1561 haha so true. An interview is fundamentally a conversation. What is has become is a bizzare, robotic box ticking excerise. There is no discretion left in society, only mechnisation. It's horrible.
@@jsmith1561 It depends. If you're too robotic and parroting overly rehearsed answers, they hate that too and will find a reason to score you low (e.g. "example didn't quite cover the expectations for this grade"). If you can be relaxed and honest, can give a clear and engaging STAR response, and answer probing questions well, you're more likely to score higher. And let's say you interviewed well and checked all the boxes, but for whatever reason they didn't like you, they can simply say another candidate scored higher.
Thank you so much for the amazing videos you provide. I have just secured my dream job in the Civil Service and have been watching your videos intensely over the past week. Thank you once again!
This entire video playlist has been invaluable information in helping me prepare for interviewing for the Civil Service. I've used several sources of information to help but these videos by far have been the most indepth and well formulated to give you a solid foundation on how to prepare. Even being posted 2 years ago, they are still helping people get a greater understanding of this process. Thank you Jac!, I wish you every success.
Your videos are so helpful mate. I used them a lot whilst preparing for my interview and am now waiting for a start date for an HEO position. Your advice on how to structure answers was especially helpful. The best of luck to you.
Thanks so much for your videos Jac. I watched heaps last year for my interview preparation and they really helped. I got the job. I’m just waiting for my contract to come through. Thanks so much for taking the time to share what you’ve learnt with others in such a clear and helpful way. Wishing you all the best.
Just wanted to write a comment to say thank you, Jac. After struggling my way through a few civil service interviews and getting rubbish scores, I'd almost completely lost hope and thought I would never get past the interview stage. Now after watching these videos, I've received two provisional offers in the last week! You really make it easy to understand exactly what they are looking for.
Jac you deserve a OBE for all the help you offer potential candidates for UK civil service. HRH, if you or your aides ever read any of this public stuff when you are not too busy with royal stuff Jac merits an OBE for his help to potential jobseekers in the civil service
Hi Jac. Just wanted to say Thank You for the hints and tips. Although I had help elsewhere as well, I believe watching your videos definitely helped me pass my latest interview. I scored 6 for both behaviours and total of 10 (out of 12) for 3 strength questions. Thank You.
Hi Jac, I just wanted to say a massive thank you for your youtube videos. I came across your videos when preparing for a HEO role at HMRC a couple of weeks ago and today i’ve been offered to be on the reserve list and my scores were 5,6,6,6 thanks to you! Xxx
I have been shortlisted for interview for an administrative job role for the Civil Services UK, earlier I Had a Dubai Private job interview and i passed it, it was my first overseas interview and I felt so happy passing it, but I could not take up the role because the salary was too low. I'll just give my best shot in the Civil services interview and also keep applying for private jobs also, I currently already work remotely to financially support myself.
Very informative and really helpful. I have a online prerecorded interview for a civil service role this weekend and with only two days notice to prepare. Its been years since my last interview so I'm really nervous but super keen to do well. I will take all you advice with me. Keep on creating great content like this please, you've genuinely given me the best insite I've seen whilst studying the web tonight.
Thanks for the kind words Dan! Really hope it goes well on the weekend. I've not done a pre recorded interview for a very long time but I'm sure you'll nail it. Let me know how it goes :)
Hi Jac, I’ve just come back across your videos and wanted to thank you so much for this guidance. I binge watched this whole series the night before, and morning of, my interview and learned exactly what my interviewers wanted from me. My interview was around this time last year, I was successful and absolutely love my job now. Thanks again, Michael
This was a really helpful video in preparing for my DCMS interview today, thank you! I actually think a lot of what you said applies to most competency based interviews, not just those in the Civil Service :)
I will like to say a massive Thank you! I have had an overview of all your videos, and I have paused them and prepared my answers breaking them throughout with the help of your videos. I have attended an interview. HEO level and even if I didn't get the job the feedback was well received. I have tried again and applied for the PSO position and I have been successful. Keep going, you are doing amazing in helping people to succeed. Thank you again! 🙏
Been trying to get a civil service job for a certain department I did work experience at and really enjoyed it there and turns out there were some vacancies at. I got to the interview stages and done them (one pre-recorded one for one role and another face to face in another) but have unfortunately failed them both so didn't get the roles 🙈 There is a new vacancy that popped up which the manager I was with in the work experience at emailed me notifying about it and have currently done the online situational judgement test, passed it, and now am waiting to see if they'll give me an email or not. I was talking to my work coach and a few others there too about it and they mentioned as well that the interviews are pretty tedious and are very specific with what they're looking for, especially looking out for certain key words you use as well as the format of how you give examples and whatnot to what they're looking for. Anyhow, my work coach actually told me to take a look at your videos so I'll be going through the whole journey of this Civil Service Interview playlist because honestly, I am losing faith in myself and thinking I did the interviews well, it's actually a lot more harder to do without knowing what exactly I should and shouldn't say!
Hi Jack! Your videos are pretty unique. So, so much help when prepping but also when simply applying to these jobs with the civil service. Just the process of it is so daunting! For those of us who have recently graduated and don't have all that much work experience, could you perhaps make a video with a sort of list of actual questions you get asked for each case and the reply you would give? I find I tend to waffle in these because I feel that my student experiences are not serious enough for a civil service interview :-/
Hi Jac, thank you for producing these videos. I watched them before my interview and found them very helpful. I was successful and have been offered the job! 😊
Would just like to say your videos really helped for my interview for the civil service. Used them for guidance and really believe it helped me get a provisional offer so thank you for doing these vids!! If anyone needs prep, definitely listen to Jac and his advice.
Hi Jac, I have an interview next Thursday and I've been watching a lot of your videos to help me prepare and they've been really helpful! Hope I get the job...
@@JacWilliamsVideo really well I thought! One of the panel said I covered the Making Effective Decisions behaviour very well! I've got two more interviews next week for similar roles - I scheduled them close together so I can do them while I'm on a roll!
@@JacWilliamsVideo Well, I’m quite confused. Apparently,I didn’t get the position, but they were so blown away by my answers that they have asked the MoJ to open two positions instead of one, so they can hire me too. I’m confused but very proud. Thank you so much! 😌
I'm so glad I have come across this! I always seem to fail this bloody part! and I sometimes feel that these are done purposefully, I am fully competent in the jobs that I have applied for, I get shortlisted and then I have to do these questions, each time I do it I get through the first part but never the second part. I'm glad I came across this and I hope to use this to go forward
Hi Jac I have been watching your videos for some time, Thanks a lot. Got an interview this Friday. I have ended up in "Reserve List" twice in civil service interviews before. Trying to do well this time. Not sure where I'm going wrong, so following your tips closely this time.
Hi jack, do you have any videos on the leadership behaviour? I have an interview coming up and leadership is one of the behaviours I will be assessed on and I'm finding it the most difficult. Thank you. Your videos are very helpful btw :)
Hi Jac, i just passed the SJT test with a very high score for an Executive Officer role with the DWP. I'm now prepping for the pre-recorded final interview. They will be assessing me on Communicating and Influencing, Managing a Quality Service and Making Effective Decisions. It will be 6 behavioural questions. I need to find out whether there will be any strength based questions which I hate lol 😆
hey hun what sort of questions did they ask you 😭😭 and they say you need to do it within 5 days they sent me the email on Monday do you know when the deadline will be
Hi Jac In an interview that I did recently for a non civil service role, I found it very helpful to do extensive research into the company and the recent work that they had done. Do you think that this kind of preparation would be less useful for a civil service interview and do interviewers ever ask questions that will require you to show your passion/ knowledge for the work of that particular department? Thank you for making these videos!!! I have found them very useful in preparing for my first civil service interview.
Hi, I think doing your research will never hurt. From my experience these types of questions seem to be less apparent in the CS. However, I have been asked in the past 'why do I want this role' etc. Showing passion is always a good idea in my opinion :)
Hi Jac , I prefer to do a mock interiview before attending an interview. My Mentor arranged a mock interview for me with with one of her colleagues. She is going to help me with my delivery of behavoiours as my face lights up when I was asked a strengths questions for the three behaviours for the exercise.
Hi Jac, many thanks for the videos. They are very informative! I'll have a data analyst interview next week and wondered if you have any advice on the technical - analyst questions. I never had analyst interview before so I don't really know what to expect. Thanks :)
Thanks for this, really helpful. Got my first Civil Service behavioral / strengths interview in a few weeks. Plus an analytical exercise on top!! 3 and a half hour time slot!!
Can you add some examples of the of the questions? Behaviour- managing a quality service, delivering at pace and some questions from communicating and influencing.
Hi Jack great Video! Could you make a video on writing behaviours too. Im trying to get my head around writing them for applications but always scoring 3s and 4s never good enough to get an interview.
@@JacWilliamsVideo Hi jack I am but I'm guessing I'm not getting the information they want in the examples? really hard to condense everything into 250 words.
Very helpful, looking forward your next videos. Just to ask, is there any guidance for the judgemental test? I have submitted my application but have to take the test in order to progress further. Thank you 👍
Thanks Dawn. I would recommend practising some of these tests online with a provider. Maybe even pay for a month and do loads of tests and then cancel. There are free practise tests out there as well :)
Hi Jac! thank you for the video. Could I ask, for the situation questions, will it be clear that it's not a past experience question? and I am right in thinking that we are only using STAR for the past experience ones, not the situation ones? In which case, is there a way you'd recommend answering it in terms of format? thank you!
Hello! I am preparing for my civil service interview (coming up in 2 weeks). I really enjoyed your video, has been super helpful so far. I'd really appreciate some help with 'managing a quality service' and 'delivering at pace' behaviors. These success profiles are very new to me! Thank you
Hey Jac I have an interview soon , I formatted my answers STRA-L, I added ***Lesson learned*** because I read somewhere the panel needs needs to know what you learned per behaviour. issue is I need to reduce what I say to hit the time limit for my interview soon . so should I just remove lesson learned ?, thanks for the video it help me out a lot!!
Hi Jac, really helpful video thanks a lot! I have an interview for an AO position tomorrow, you mentioned the Strength based answers were timed for 3 minutes. Do you know how long the Behaviour answers need to be?
@@qaz3652 hi yes I did, I got more right than 32% of the people, I don't know if that's good or bad tbh 🤣🤣. I can't really remember, it was a lot of questions with multiple answers. The next stage is a video interview with strength based questions , this is the one I'm nervous about. Google Mock civil servant exam and there's some mocks that come on the gov website to do.
Hey Kimmy, don’t be nervous. They aren’t hard. If you’ve gone through this channel and practiced the situation questions, you’ll find that very helpful. Took the video interview today and this channel was a very important part of my preparations. Good luck!
Hi Jac, thanks for the tips, really helpful. For strength questions, how should we structure the answer? Also, do strength questions relate to behaviours. I have an upcoming interview where I will be assessed on 5 behaviours, experience and strengths.
Very helpful, thank you! - A general question if I may? I'm not in the CS but have achieved quite a senior role (and a lot of experience) in the private sector. I am interested in applying to the CS, for grade 6/7 positions. In your experience, are these grades hired externally? Or does the CS prefer internal candidates for these relatively more senior positions?
You're welcome Lloyd, glad it was helpful. Yes - they are definitely hired externally. Numerous external G6/G7's have been hired recently in my area. Generally there are two types of job advert in the CS. Internal, where the advert is only visible to existing Civil servants in that organisation. Or External, where anyone can apply.
@@JacWilliamsVideo Thanks for this info! Okay, got it. One other question if you have a moment is: Should the initial (written) application also be submitted with Success Profiles / STAR in mind? eg, the initial personal statement and CV text fields should (in the space available) speak more about the desired behaviours?
I’ve actually just made a video about this. Will be up on Friday :) i recommend going through the persons criteria and giving example that hit each point. No need to STAR at this stage as the word count won’t allow for a very detailed example for each. There maybe the kind of form which gives a few behaviours and then asks for 250 words for each. In this case use STAR.
Hi Jac, I can't thank you enought. I tried to send you an email but the email on skillshare is wrong. So I copied and pasted this email I tried to send you two weeks ago "Hi Jac, I hope this email finds you well. I'm writing to you today to express my sincere gratitude for your Skillshare course and TH-cam channel. Your content has been incredibly helpful and inspiring, and it has given me the confidence to apply for government jobs for the first time since I moved to the UK 10 years ago. I am currently applying for three different jobs, and next week I will have my first interview with Companies house. I love your videos are clear, concise, and informative and if I get the job I owe you a proper Italian coffee. Thank you" UPDATE: I pass my interview thanks to your tips and I will have an interview as well with DWP here in Ponty soon.. BTW A strength question they asked was so tell me your ideal holiday :D
Hi Jac, thank you for your useful video which is more helpful than even civil service guidelines. Do you have any suggestions about HMRC suitability statement and interview? I would be very grateful if you share any helpful tips. Thank you.
Hi there - super useful videos thanks. I have an interview coming up this week which includes a technical evaluation of GCS Insight (core) and Impact - but there's no mention of how this will be done. Any thoughts?
Hi Jac! Your videos are really helpful, thank you so much. I have an interview for an SEO role and was told in email there'll be 30 minutes of Behaviour based questions. Do you know if it's safe to assume it'll only be Behaviour based or can they throw in some Strength based questions too?
Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love , and peace all over the world . I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Frank Lange from Brooklyn New York, where are you from if I may ask?
Hi Jac - Your video's are great, found them really useful. Do you have any video about 'Leadership', I'd really appreciate some help with this behaviour. Many thanks
Thank you so much for the video, it was so helpful! I just have a quick question please, from my understanding you applied to different civil servant positions? Did you apply to different positions in different departments, and whether you applied to them around the same time? Thank you so much!
Hi Jac this video is so helpful thanks so much! Quick question hope it doesn’t sound silly. I have an interview later this week and it states I will be assessed through behaviour and experience-based questions. Any tips on how best to prepare for experience-based questions? It seems strength questions are pretty popular, is there any chance these may still come up in my interview? Thanks!
Hi Jac, I have an interview tomorrow and from what I'm seeing, strength questions are separate to behaviour questions? Do they come under different sections in selection process details?
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Hi Joe. Fantasstic stuff, you got. I have an interview coming up which is based on the 'Experience' success profile only. No behaviour/ strengths at all. 😐Please advise me on how to prepare for it?
Prepped for the interview using your videos and got a job offer - thank you!
I would be ungrateful if I don’t come back to say thank you.
After applying to 35 civil service jobs, 6 interviews and 2 reserve list.
Finally got an offer for an EO role.
Thank you
Congratulations! That's awesome and clearly hard work has paid off for you.
Same comment you dropped on another creator’s content… why the deception?
@Ruthayi_Truth, people watch more then one person to help them prepare.
Hey Jack, I had a Civil Service job interview, used your videos to revise, and got the job! Thank you for your knowledge I really appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos. Take care dude.
@@arronmallory1418 awesome 🙌🏻
This level of formality in getting a job is just ridiculous. It feels so robotic and unnatural...
Yep. I had an interview with The Coastguard. It went great. It was relaxed, honest, plenty of examples, we got on well. I later got my score: 1 out of 5. It's all about telling them what they want to hear, not about telling them the truth. Probably why our Civil Service is full of so many useless idiots.
@@jsmith1561 haha so true. An interview is fundamentally a conversation. What is has become is a bizzare, robotic box ticking excerise. There is no discretion left in society, only mechnisation. It's horrible.
@@jsmith1561 It depends. If you're too robotic and parroting overly rehearsed answers, they hate that too and will find a reason to score you low (e.g. "example didn't quite cover the expectations for this grade"). If you can be relaxed and honest, can give a clear and engaging STAR response, and answer probing questions well, you're more likely to score higher. And let's say you interviewed well and checked all the boxes, but for whatever reason they didn't like you, they can simply say another candidate scored higher.
@@thesixtywalrus Getting my cock out was, in hindsight, probably a mistake.
That's the government for you
This gentleman called Jack is the best 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I like how he defined the difference between SITUATIONAL Questions and PAST EXPERIENCE.
Thank you! Glad it was helpful.
Thank you so much for all of your videos, they were so useful and I got the job!
Amazing1? congratulations
Well done 👏🏾
Thank you so much for the amazing videos you provide. I have just secured my dream job in the Civil Service and have been watching your videos intensely over the past week. Thank you once again!
This entire video playlist has been invaluable information in helping me prepare for interviewing for the Civil Service. I've used several sources of information to help but these videos by far have been the most indepth and well formulated to give you a solid foundation on how to prepare.
Even being posted 2 years ago, they are still helping people get a greater understanding of this process. Thank you Jac!, I wish you every success.
Your videos are so helpful mate. I used them a lot whilst preparing for my interview and am now waiting for a start date for an HEO position. Your advice on how to structure answers was especially helpful. The best of luck to you.
Awesome, congrats!
Thanks so much for your videos Jac. I watched heaps last year for my interview preparation and they really helped. I got the job. I’m just waiting for my contract to come through. Thanks so much for taking the time to share what you’ve learnt with others in such a clear and helpful way. Wishing you all the best.
You're very welcome and congratulations.
Just wanted to write a comment to say thank you, Jac. After struggling my way through a few civil service interviews and getting rubbish scores, I'd almost completely lost hope and thought I would never get past the interview stage. Now after watching these videos, I've received two provisional offers in the last week! You really make it easy to understand exactly what they are looking for.
That's amazing! Nice work and thank you.
Got my interview on Tuesday. Dreading it tbh as first interview in 17 years! I'm ex civil service too. These videos are really helping. Thanks Jac
Hope you got the job
@@dominich2263 I did. I've been in post 6 weeks now
Really pleased for you genuine ly
Jac you deserve a OBE for all the help you offer potential candidates for UK civil service. HRH, if you or your aides ever read any of this public stuff when you are not too busy with royal stuff Jac merits an OBE for his help to potential jobseekers in the civil service
haha, this is the best comment I've had. Thank you!
Thanks so much Jac, I got an offer first time for a SEO policy role!
Hi Jac, just wanted to say thanks for all your great tips and advice. I just got a job offer with the Home Office.
Awesome! Congratulations :)
On which role pls and can you share your interview questions and experience.
Hi Jac. Just wanted to say Thank You for the hints and tips. Although I had help elsewhere as well, I believe watching your videos definitely helped me pass my latest interview. I scored 6 for both behaviours and total of 10 (out of 12) for 3 strength questions. Thank You.
Hi Jac,
I just wanted to say a massive thank you for your youtube videos. I came across your videos when preparing for a HEO role at HMRC a couple of weeks ago and today i’ve been offered to be on the reserve list and my scores were 5,6,6,6 thanks to you! Xxx
Congrats!
I have been shortlisted for interview for an administrative job role for the Civil Services UK, earlier I Had a Dubai Private job interview and i passed it, it was my first overseas interview and I felt so happy passing it, but I could not take up the role because the salary was too low. I'll just give my best shot in the Civil services interview and also keep applying for private jobs also, I currently already work remotely to financially support myself.
Hi Jac, I watched your videos, took your advice and I've been been offered a job. Thank you so much
Congrats!
Just got my email for a video interview! Luckily I have about a month until I have to complete it so am looking forward to watching all your videos!
Awesome - you've got this!
Good luck with it!! I've got mine in a few weeks!!
Very informative and really helpful. I have a online prerecorded interview for a civil service role this weekend and with only two days notice to prepare. Its been years since my last interview so I'm really nervous but super keen to do well. I will take all you advice with me. Keep on creating great content like this please, you've genuinely given me the best insite I've seen whilst studying the web tonight.
Thanks for the kind words Dan! Really hope it goes well on the weekend. I've not done a pre recorded interview for a very long time but I'm sure you'll nail it. Let me know how it goes :)
Hi Jac, I’ve just come back across your videos and wanted to thank you so much for this guidance. I binge watched this whole series the night before, and morning of, my interview and learned exactly what my interviewers wanted from me. My interview was around this time last year, I was successful and absolutely love my job now. Thanks again, Michael
That's awesome, Michael! You're very welcome.
Thanks Jac - I was appointed to senior civil service post from the private sector, after watching your video's - extremely helpful. Thanks
I have an interview on Monday and finding these videos has been so useful for my preparation. Thank you so much
Thank you. Got the job! I didn't manage to revise my answers, but knowing the structure of everything helped me to get by on improvising. Cheers.
This was a really helpful video in preparing for my DCMS interview today, thank you! I actually think a lot of what you said applies to most competency based interviews, not just those in the Civil Service :)
Thanks Amy. Yes - agreed!
I will like to say a massive Thank you!
I have had an overview of all your videos, and I have paused them and prepared my answers breaking them throughout with the help of your videos.
I have attended an interview. HEO level and even if I didn't get the job the feedback was well received.
I have tried again and applied for the PSO position and I have been successful.
Keep going, you are doing amazing in helping people to succeed. Thank you again! 🙏
Hi Denisa, any advices to give for a fellow Romanian? Thank you!
Been trying to get a civil service job for a certain department I did work experience at and really enjoyed it there and turns out there were some vacancies at.
I got to the interview stages and done them (one pre-recorded one for one role and another face to face in another) but have unfortunately failed them both so didn't get the roles 🙈
There is a new vacancy that popped up which the manager I was with in the work experience at emailed me notifying about it and have currently done the online situational judgement test, passed it, and now am waiting to see if they'll give me an email or not.
I was talking to my work coach and a few others there too about it and they mentioned as well that the interviews are pretty tedious and are very specific with what they're looking for, especially looking out for certain key words you use as well as the format of how you give examples and whatnot to what they're looking for.
Anyhow, my work coach actually told me to take a look at your videos so I'll be going through the whole journey of this Civil Service Interview playlist because honestly, I am losing faith in myself and thinking I did the interviews well, it's actually a lot more harder to do without knowing what exactly I should and shouldn't say!
Hi I have a pre recorded interview for AO customer service strength base interviews would you assist me
Hi Jack! Your videos are pretty unique. So, so much help when prepping but also when simply applying to these jobs with the civil service. Just the process of it is so daunting! For those of us who have recently graduated and don't have all that much work experience, could you perhaps make a video with a sort of list of actual questions you get asked for each case and the reply you would give? I find I tend to waffle in these because I feel that my student experiences are not serious enough for a civil service interview :-/
Hi Jac, thank you for producing these videos. I watched them before my interview and found them very helpful. I was successful and have been offered the job! 😊
congrats :)
Thank you I thought I was an expert but having a different insight is refreshing
Glad it was helpful!
Would just like to say your videos really helped for my interview for the civil service. Used them for guidance and really believe it helped me get a provisional offer so thank you for doing these vids!!
If anyone needs prep, definitely listen to Jac and his advice.
Great job!
Thank you so much for your insightful and informative videos! They really helped me during my interview and I got the job 😊
Congrats!
Please include an example of Making Effective Decisions using the STAR technique.
Hi Jac, thanks so much fo these videos. They were really helpful in my preparation and I have now been offered the position!
Awesome, congrats :)
Thank you!! Reduced my stress for last minute prep !
Hi Jac, I have an interview next Thursday and I've been watching a lot of your videos to help me prepare and they've been really helpful! Hope I get the job...
How did it go?:)
@@JacWilliamsVideo really well I thought! One of the panel said I covered the Making Effective Decisions behaviour very well! I've got two more interviews next week for similar roles - I scheduled them close together so I can do them while I'm on a roll!
I’ve been binge watching all your videos as I had an interview today. I’m not sure how it went, hoping to get a positive feedback by next week 😅
Let me know how the result goes, fingers crossed :)
@@JacWilliamsVideo Well, I’m quite confused. Apparently,I didn’t get the position, but they were so blown away by my answers that they have asked the MoJ to open two positions instead of one, so they can hire me too. I’m confused but very proud. Thank you so much! 😌
@@emmaamegan6796 "Be so good can't they can't ignore you" - awesome news, well done!
Thank you Jac, your videos are really useful.
I manage to get a job I could never imagine.
Wish you all the best !
That's great news, congrats!
@@JacWilliamsVideo thank you 🙏
Well done Jac, super helpful ☺️
Thanks Amy 😊
I really liked your advice on answering the question based on the situation vs past experience or practice of questions. Thank you!
This was a GAME CHANGER for me. Glad it helped you :)
Really helpful Jac.
I have an interview next week based on Leadership.
Hope it went well :)
I'm so glad I have come across this! I always seem to fail this bloody part! and I sometimes feel that these are done purposefully, I am fully competent in the jobs that I have applied for, I get shortlisted and then I have to do these questions, each time I do it I get through the first part but never the second part. I'm glad I came across this and I hope to use this to go forward
Glad it was helpful!
Great help this Jac, got an interview tomorrow and this was a big help!
Thankyou for your time.
You're welcome. Hope it was helpful :)
Yes very helpful Thankyou. I have to complete the main test and then hopefully I will get an interview. Fingers crossed 🤞
Thank you very much, your videos helped me get the job. 😀
Amazing, congrats!
Thank you so much, this is really helpful. I'm looking forward to your other videos, I now feel less daunted about my interview.
You’ll be great Maggie, hope it goes well :)
Very clear and well structured. Thank you.
Thanks Vicki, you're welcome.
Hi Jac I have been watching your videos for some time, Thanks a lot. Got an interview this Friday. I have ended up in "Reserve List" twice in civil service interviews before. Trying to do well this time. Not sure where I'm going wrong, so following your tips closely this time.
So helpful to listen to! could you possibly do one for 'Managing a quality Service'!?
Well done!!! Fantastic briefing!!!
Glad you liked it!
Hi jack,
do you have any videos on the leadership behaviour? I have an interview coming up and leadership is one of the behaviours I will be assessed on and I'm finding it the most difficult. Thank you. Your videos are very helpful btw :)
Hi Jac, i just passed the SJT test with a very high score for an Executive Officer role with the DWP. I'm now prepping for the pre-recorded final interview. They will be assessing me on Communicating and Influencing, Managing a Quality Service and Making Effective Decisions. It will be 6 behavioural questions. I need to find out whether there will be any strength based questions which I hate lol 😆
@@Jimmywilliams_ hired. You'll be fine. It's not hard. Just practice practice practice
Hi ive got mine next week ,Please can you tell me what questions to practise please.
hey hun what sort of questions did they ask you 😭😭 and they say you need to do it within 5 days they sent me the email on Monday do you know when the deadline will be
Hi Jac
In an interview that I did recently for a non civil service role, I found it very helpful to do extensive research into the company and the recent work that they had done. Do you think that this kind of preparation would be less useful for a civil service interview and do interviewers ever ask questions that will require you to show your passion/ knowledge for the work of that particular department?
Thank you for making these videos!!! I have found them very useful in preparing for my first civil service interview.
Hi, I think doing your research will never hurt. From my experience these types of questions seem to be less apparent in the CS. However, I have been asked in the past 'why do I want this role' etc. Showing passion is always a good idea in my opinion :)
@@JacWilliamsVideo Thank you!!!!
Hi Jac , I prefer to do a mock interiview before attending an interview. My Mentor arranged a mock interview for me with with one of her colleagues. She is going to help me with my delivery of behavoiours as my face lights up when I was asked a strengths questions for the three behaviours for the exercise.
Hi Jac, many thanks for the videos. They are very informative! I'll have a data analyst interview next week and wondered if you have any advice on the technical - analyst questions. I never had analyst interview before so I don't really know what to expect. Thanks :)
Think about topics such as data visualisation, quality assuring outputs and communicating analysis with a non-technical audience.
Hi! I just came across this video. You broke down everything so well. Thank you so much!!!
You're welcome!
Thanks alot Jac.
Can you please tell me more about the Changing and improving question?
I've filmed a video about this one but need to edit it first :)
This was really helpful, Thank you brother 🙏
Really glad it was helpful mate! You’re welcome 😊
great video, thanks for the advise. I will try to follow those on my upcoming interviews for Civil Service positions🙂
Good luck!
Thanks for this, really helpful. Got my first Civil Service behavioral / strengths interview in a few weeks. Plus an analytical exercise on top!! 3 and a half hour time slot!!
Oh wow! 3 and a half hours is a long time haha. I hope it goes well, let me know :)
Can you add some examples of the of the questions?
Behaviour- managing a quality service, delivering at pace and some questions from communicating and influencing.
Check out my other videos for each of the behaviours :)
Gest video. Though now days there is no real communication, questions are prerecorded. And you have to record your answers! Very odd system.
That's only for certain first-stage interviews in certain departments. There is definitely real communication in other situations.
thx man, honestly helped me alot pls keep up.
Thanks Mate :)
Thank you for your video they have really helped me with my interviews. Any chance you could do Leadership behaviour one?
thank you! really needed this ❤️
You're welcome :)
@jac Williams could you please give insights on Civil service Online assessment center
Hello Jac, I got a succesfull answer after the interview. Now I have a written assesment. Do you have a video about that?
These videos are brilliant was trying to find one on managing a quality service ?
I haven't done one yet unfortunately.
Hi Jack great Video! Could you make a video on writing behaviours too. Im trying to get my head around writing them for applications but always scoring 3s and 4s never good enough to get an interview.
Will try and think of a way to do this Omar. Are you using the STAR approach?
@@JacWilliamsVideo Hi jack I am but I'm guessing I'm not getting the information they want in the examples? really hard to condense everything into 250 words.
Very helpful, looking forward your next videos. Just to ask, is there any guidance for the judgemental test? I have submitted my application but have to take the test in order to progress further. Thank you 👍
Thanks Dawn. I would recommend practising some of these tests online with a provider. Maybe even pay for a month and do loads of tests and then cancel. There are free practise tests out there as well :)
Thank you very much.👍👍
Super helpful! fingers crossed I get the role.
Have you got the finance apprenticeship interview tomorrow too?
Hi Jac! thank you for the video. Could I ask, for the situation questions, will it be clear that it's not a past experience question? and I am right in thinking that we are only using STAR for the past experience ones, not the situation ones? In which case, is there a way you'd recommend answering it in terms of format? thank you!
Hello! I am preparing for my civil service interview (coming up in 2 weeks). I really enjoyed your video, has been super helpful so far. I'd really appreciate some help with 'managing a quality service' and 'delivering at pace' behaviors. These success profiles are very new to me! Thank you
I’m working on one for DAP at the moment! I’ve never actually been asked any on the Managing a quality service, sorry.
@@JacWilliamsVideo amazing I’ll be sure to watch, thank you!
Oh no worries, thanks for replying :)
How an earth do you prepare a presentation for ‘ seeing the bigger picture ‘ ?!
Great video very helpful! Quick question, what monitor do you have? :)
Check out my desk video th-cam.com/video/QMy3oFiiaKQ/w-d-xo.html
Hey Jac I have an interview soon , I formatted my answers STRA-L, I added ***Lesson learned*** because I read somewhere the panel needs needs to know what you learned per behaviour. issue is I need to reduce what I say to hit the time limit for my interview soon . so should I just remove lesson learned ?, thanks for the video it help me out a lot!!
Thanks for informing and helping
Hi Jac, really helpful video thanks a lot! I have an interview for an AO position tomorrow, you mentioned the Strength based answers were timed for 3 minutes. Do you know how long the Behaviour answers need to be?
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Glad i found this video, i have the video interview this week, im nervous they seem hard
Hey, did you pass their verbal reasoning test? If so, how was it and do you have any tips please? 😅
@@qaz3652 hi yes I did, I got more right than 32% of the people, I don't know if that's good or bad tbh 🤣🤣.
I can't really remember, it was a lot of questions with multiple answers.
The next stage is a video interview with strength based questions , this is the one I'm nervous about.
Google Mock civil servant exam and there's some mocks that come on the gov website to do.
Hey Kimmy, don’t be nervous. They aren’t hard.
If you’ve gone through this channel and practiced the situation questions, you’ll find that very helpful.
Took the video interview today and this channel was a very important part of my preparations.
Good luck!
Hi
Thank you,I did it, just waiting on results now, do you know how long it takes to get a response about the interview?
@@kimcocreations I am not exactly sure but from some other person’s experience, it took two weeks before they got feedback.
Hi Jac, thanks for the tips, really helpful. For strength questions, how should we structure the answer? Also, do strength questions relate to behaviours. I have an upcoming interview where I will be assessed on 5 behaviours, experience and strengths.
Thanks mate for the video. Do you have any suggestions about how to pass the Civil Service Jugdement test( I believe it’s called CSJT). Thanks
You're welcome! I haven't done many but all I can say is go online and do shed loads of practise tests :)
Very helpful, thank you! - A general question if I may? I'm not in the CS but have achieved quite a senior role (and a lot of experience) in the private sector. I am interested in applying to the CS, for grade 6/7 positions. In your experience, are these grades hired externally? Or does the CS prefer internal candidates for these relatively more senior positions?
You're welcome Lloyd, glad it was helpful. Yes - they are definitely hired externally. Numerous external G6/G7's have been hired recently in my area. Generally there are two types of job advert in the CS. Internal, where the advert is only visible to existing Civil servants in that organisation. Or External, where anyone can apply.
@@JacWilliamsVideo Thanks for this info! Okay, got it. One other question if you have a moment is: Should the initial (written) application also be submitted with Success Profiles / STAR in mind? eg, the initial personal statement and CV text fields should (in the space available) speak more about the desired behaviours?
I’ve actually just made a video about this. Will be up on Friday :) i recommend going through the persons criteria and giving example that hit each point. No need to STAR at this stage as the word count won’t allow for a very detailed example for each. There maybe the kind of form which gives a few behaviours and then asks for 250 words for each. In this case use STAR.
@@JacWilliamsVideo Great! I look forward to watching!
Hi Jac, I can't thank you enought. I tried to send you an email but the email on skillshare is wrong. So I copied and pasted this email I tried to send you two weeks ago
"Hi Jac,
I hope this email finds you well. I'm writing to you today to express my sincere gratitude for your Skillshare course and TH-cam channel. Your content has been incredibly helpful and inspiring, and it has given me the confidence to apply for government jobs for the first time since I moved to the UK 10 years ago.
I am currently applying for three different jobs, and next week I will have my first interview with Companies house.
I love your videos are clear, concise, and informative and if I get the job I owe you a proper Italian coffee.
Thank you"
UPDATE: I pass my interview thanks to your tips and I will have an interview as well with DWP here in Ponty soon.. BTW A strength question they asked was so tell me your ideal holiday :D
This warms my heart, Ivan. I would love a proper Italian coffee btw - sounds great haha!
@@JacWilliamsVideo i told you I owe you. Honestly you changed my life. Can't thank you enough
Hi Jac, thank you for your useful video which is more helpful than even civil service guidelines. Do you have any suggestions about HMRC suitability statement and interview? I would be very grateful if you share any helpful tips. Thank you.
Good video, well presented!
Hi there - super useful videos thanks. I have an interview coming up this week which includes a technical evaluation of GCS Insight (core) and Impact - but there's no mention of how this will be done. Any thoughts?
Hi Jac! Your videos are really helpful, thank you so much. I have an interview for an SEO role and was told in email there'll be 30 minutes of Behaviour based questions. Do you know if it's safe to assume it'll only be Behaviour based or can they throw in some Strength based questions too?
I would be prepared for some strength q's just in case!
@@JacWilliamsVideo So interestingly they didn't ask me any strength questions! Just 3 behaviour based questions that were listed in the job advert.
@@jedrzejs.9818 It varies from place to place - hope it went well!
Many thanks for sharing.
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Your videos are so useful. Thank you so much. Is it possible to make one for Developing self and others behaviour? Thank you
Thank you so much for this info. Much appreciated 👍
You're welcome.
Hi Jac - Your video's are great, found them really useful. Do you have any video about 'Leadership', I'd really appreciate some help with this behaviour. Many thanks
Hey, I’ll look at doing one in the future :)
@@JacWilliamsVideo thanks...if you have any tips, please could you share...have an SEO one coming up soon. :)
Im trying to prepare for a interview in the civil service god its so hard. This timing thing is the hardest
Is it usual to only be being assessed against one behaviour? The job description only lists one behaviour we’re being assessed against
Thank you so much for the video, it was so helpful! I just have a quick question please, from my understanding you applied to different civil servant positions? Did you apply to different positions in different departments, and whether you applied to them around the same time? Thank you so much!
Different departments and different jobs.
Thank you for your response! @@JacWilliamsVideo
Hi Jac this video is so helpful thanks so much! Quick question hope it doesn’t sound silly. I have an interview later this week and it states I will be assessed through behaviour and experience-based questions. Any tips on how best to prepare for experience-based questions? It seems strength questions are pretty popular, is there any chance these may still come up in my interview? Thanks!
The experience part is the behaviour questions: situational and past experience.
Hi Jac, I have an interview tomorrow and from what I'm seeing, strength questions are separate to behaviour questions? Do they come under different sections in selection process details?
they are separate and will usually be asked before situational and experience questions for each behaviour.
Great vid, thank you! Do you have a rough estimate of how long an answer to a behaviour question should be at interview?
Thanks
Thanks! I don’t know if their timed but I would guess around 4/5 minutes. Strength questions are 3 mins
@@JacWilliamsVideo thank you!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Hi Joe. Fantasstic stuff, you got. I have an interview coming up which is based on the 'Experience' success profile only. No behaviour/ strengths at all. 😐Please advise me on how to prepare for it?