Civil Service Delivering At PACE Behaviour Interview Questions & Answers (Applicants Experience)

In this video I share practise questions for the Civil Service delivering at pace behaviour. We will go through a strength question and a competency style interview question. I will also walk through a situational question as this is the trickiest Success Profile question.

As always the content of this video is based on my experience and is not to be considered official guidance.

Be sure to check out my overview of the CS Success profiles video:

Strengths dictionary:

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Delivering at pace
01:52 - Strength question
03:58 - Situational question
06:51 - Competency style question

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[Nikki-thno]

Thank you - I used this while preparing for my first ever Civil Service interview and found it extremely helpful and relevant to the questions that came up - and I got a call yesterday with an offer :-)

[stcadvoc]

Working to deadline means I can prioritise my day and focus on a task. I work well under pressure so it allows me to hone in on my organisation skills. I first take time to plan my time and make sure I am being efficient. I make sure to keep the senior aware of my progress. My delegate some urgent tasks which can be done to another colleague. Where over work comes available I make sure to let colleagues know I cannot prioritise their work and give them a realistic timeline. Get a colleague to quality assure my work, to spell check and check for grammar.

[jbelly]

I got the job 🙌 there were 30 positions going and I got the result around 5 weeks after my interview

[hannahvaughan]

Hi Jac! Just wanted to say a massive THANK YOU for your very helpful videos.

I had my first interview in 7 years about 2 months ago, completely messed it up so unsurprisingly didn't get it.

I had another interview a few weeks ago and having taken notes from your videos I felt like my interview went SO much better. I was offered the job today!

I have never worked for HMP before but I am very excited to start a new career all thanks to you! 😁

[andrewwilson]

I started a job recently and tried to use all my previous Administration experience to fulfil the job role. The employer really did not like the idea of me creating a document which gave logical information on the various models of machines the company sold. So in three days I was suppose to just memorise the entire inventory how every machine worked all of the spare parts etc then be able to answer questions of the top of my head with no reference to any other information. Needless to say I failed at that. I was more than happy to leave. Don't allow yourself to be overwhelmed by unrealistic demands. Delivering at Pace just means you cannot do everything that is expected by others and being able to except that will keep you sane.

[ArtAnimeEmerly]

Your channel is perfectly timed for me. I just barely scraped through applications and have been invited to interview. Luckily I tend to do well in interviews but I've never done a civil service one before so I've subscribed and am binging your videos for advice xD

[deeron]

I had the priviledge of hearing you speak at one of our training sessions, and subscribed immediately. I liked the idea of pausing the video, as it gave me the opportunity to think about I had done in the past - ended up writing it down in a word document. Thanks for the useful tips.

[cecilmarke]

Thank you so much, Jac. I reviewed several interview tips from your channel and I must admit that they are very important. I used some of the techniques highlighted during my civil service interview and I got the job. Once again thank you so much.

[euphemiastavropoulou]

Excellent video and very informative, love the interactive aspect of it too! Thanks, Jac!

[abdifatahabdulle]

Thanks mate, found your videos helpful. Today I got my result and I got really good scores 6 and 7s..

[KeithLard-fire]

I work in UCR in the DWP. This week we had had 4 people off from our team. Because of this the remaining 5 of us had their work divided up between us. The way I got this extra work completed was coming in the office at 7am, taking a 15 minute lunch and staying till 6PM. Deadlines have to be met every time

[raginijoshi]

Thankyou, having interview today and it really helped build up to it. Wonderful advice and guidance

[juliemartin]

Thank you, this was extremely helpful to me. Keep them coming

[kemiuk]

I find this video very helpful, thumbs up and I subscribed too.

[aninhasix]

Amazing video. I wish you could post a video about Managing a quality service and Communicating and Influencing for my interview today : )
Anyway keep doing this kind of videos because is really helpful specially for people that English isn’t the first language. See you

[ali]

Just watched your video and it’s been really helpful and has inspired me with lots of ideas for my competency thank you so much

[emmariley]

Thanks so much, Jac! This is very helpful. I had a webinar with the ONS recently (and I just thought I say for others seeing this comment) that we were told that strengths questions would not be asked via video interviewing. They said this was because body language etc, could not be identified. Please could you do a video on working together?

[smilted]

Thanks Jac that's really helpful!

[manyscissors]

Hi Jac, thank you for the brilliant videos, they are helping me a lot in my attempts to understand the CS application process! I have a question: how do you know when you should or should not give a STAR response? It seems that you should for competency based questions and not for strength based questions - is that correct?
If so, how can you tell whether you are being asked a competency based question?

Thanks so much again for your help!

[elizabethylazaca]

Excellent video. The only thing is that interviews now are only for 120 seconds )