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Competencies
Every competency here comes with vetted questions — why they work, follow-up probes, what good looks like, red flags. A good interview covers four to six of them, chosen for what the job actually turns on. Not all of them.
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Communication & influencing
How a candidate transfers understanding and wins support: adapting to the audience, keeping the right people informed without noise, and persuading without steamrolling.
12 questions
Teamwork & collaboration
How a candidate works with people they don't control: sharing information and credit, addressing friction directly, and putting the team's result ahead of their own slice of it.
12 questions
Problem solving & judgment
How a candidate breaks down ambiguous, complex problems: framing, decomposition, use of evidence, and knowing when to decide with incomplete information.
11 questions
Adaptability
How a candidate responds when the ground shifts: changing course on new evidence, staying effective through ambiguity and setbacks, and turning what happened into what they do differently.
10 questions
Planning & delivering results
How a candidate turns intentions into finished work: prioritizing against real constraints, keeping quality up under deadline pressure, and closing loops instead of leaving them 90% done.
11 questions
Leadership & developing others
How a candidate multiplies other people: setting direction others can act on, delegating real ownership instead of tasks, and coaching people measurably beyond where they started.
12 questions
Drive & initiative
Whether a candidate treats outcomes as theirs: following through past obstacles, raising problems instead of waiting, and holding the bar when nobody is checking.
11 questions
Customer & stakeholder orientation
How a candidate serves the people the work is for: digging past stated requests to actual needs, managing expectations honestly, and holding service quality when it's inconvenient.
10 questions
Integrity & accountability
Whether a candidate does the right thing when it costs something: owning mistakes before being asked, keeping commitments, and refusing shortcuts that push risk onto others.
9 questions
Innovation & creativity
How a candidate creates the option nobody listed: questioning the default approach, connecting ideas across domains, and carrying a novel idea through the unglamorous work of making it real.
11 questions
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