| Friday 5th July 2024 @ 1300 – 1500 |
| Success Profiles – Preparing for Interview with Neil Rider |
| In this 2-hour session, participants will go through the different elements that they may encounter in an interview in the Civil Service under Civil Service Success Profiles. The session will aim to give participants an insight into what to expect and how they can prepare themselves in order to build confidence prior to an interview. This session will invite participants to interact by answering questions in the chat function (but this is voluntary). No access to a camera or mic will be needed. Participants may then wish to undertake the more detailed and fully interactive sessions on particular aspects of the recruitment process. The session is delivered by Neil Rider who is a CS ‘trained trainer’ for Civil Service Success Profiles. Since COVID, Neil has delivered remote interactive sessions for the FDA and CS employers across the UK including (in 2023) Cabinet Office, Home Office, CS Fast Stream, DWP and HMRC. |
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| Monday 15th July 2024 @ 1300 – 1430 |
| Success Profiles – The Presentation at Interview and Assessment – Neil Rider |
| This short event is a basic look at the presentation exercise followed by questions used across the Civil Service to recruit. Neil Rider will take you through basic hints and tips around how to deliver a short general presentation and handle interviews. You will look at a basic example. |
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| Tuesday 16th July 2024 0930 – 1230 |
| Success Profiles – Strengths for the Interviewee – Chris Park and Neil Rider |
| This fully interactive session will offer an outline of Strengths within Civil Service Success Profiles when used for recruitment, from the perspective of understanding what to expect as an interviewee. It is primarily aimed at Civil Servants who may need to understand the system when applying for roles or going through Gateways. The course includes interactive ‘break out’ exercises. The session is delivered by Chris Park and Neil Rider who are both CS ‘trained trainers’ for Civil Service Success Profiles. Since COVID, they have between them delivered remote interactive sessions for the FDA and CS employers for over 7,000 civil servants across the UK including (in 2023) Cabinet Office, Home Office, CS Fast Stream, DWP and HMRC. |
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| Thursday 25th July 2024 @ 13:00 – 15:00 |
| Success Profiles – Approaching the Application Form |
| The session will address typical application forms, but there is not usually a one-size-fits-all for the forms. The aim is to build insight into the different elements of an application form and an understanding of what is expected. |
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| Tuesday 6th August 2024 @ 0900 – 1200 Zoom |
| Success Profiles – Blended Interviews – Neil Rider & Chris Park |
| This online interactive course will take you through what to expect in a blended interview under Civil Service Success Profiles, covering the basics of both Behaviours and Strengths questions, scoring and the expectations around answering these types of question at interview. There will be the opportunity to see others attempting to answer both types in short videos, together with the use of breakout rooms enabling participants to discuss issues and have a go at answering Strength-based questions if they wish to. The session is delivered by Chris Park and Neil Rider who are both CS ‘trained trainers’ for Civil Service Success Profiles. Since COVID, they have between them delivered remote interactive sessions for the FDA and CS employers for over 8,000 civil servants across the UK including Cabinet Office, Home Office, CS Fast Stream, DWP and HMRC. |
| Contact [email protected] |
| Friday 16th August 2024 @ 13:30 – 15:00 |
| Success Profiles – Approaching the application form |
| In this 2-hour session participants will gain an overview of the different elements of an application form that they may encounter (based on CS Success Profiles). The session will address typical application forms, but there is not usually a one-size-fits-all for the forms. The aim is to build insight into the different elements of an application form and an understanding of what is expected |
| Webinar registration | Microsoft Teams |
| Wednesday 28th August 2024 @ 1330 – 1430 |
| Success Profiles – Behaviours and Competency Examples – a very quick review |
| In this session Neil Rider will consider how to draft Behaviours and Competency examples. Based on a 250-word behaviour example he will also look at how to adapt the approach to include examples in a personal statement as well as the 3,700 characters for applications to Northern Ireland Civil Service and larger wordcounts allowed by some CS employers. As well as the STAR approach Neil will also look at ‘STARR’ as used in some processes. This will be a very brief ‘run though’ covering a lot of ground. |
| Behaviours and Competency Examples – a very quick review – crowdcast Password is Competency |