Technical Interviews – as the name suggests these are aimed at discovering your technical knowledge and can range from a client asking you to talk through your portfolio to asking for section numbers in the legislation. It is harder to prepare for these meetings, but a good starting point is to review your CV and remind yourself of the work that you have already done. That way you will be able to talk fluently through the areas that you have dealt with.
If you consider that on average you have just over an hour to impress a future employer it’s worth putting in some time beforehand to do some preparation. After all as a tax professional you wouldn’t do a pitch to your clients or to the Board without a considerable amount of preparation. No matter how good your CV, experience and qualifications – we recommend the following:
The best starting point for interview preparation is to imagine that you are the interviewer and what you would want to ask a candidate. Remember that the interviewer is on your side, they want you to get the job so they don’t need to spend further time interviewing other people. Basically what they need to find out is:
At Georgiana Head Recruitment Ltd, we often tell candidates that they should also think about what they want out of the interview. It is your chance to ask about the role and see whether it is what you want. An interview should ideally be a discussion – a ‘two way street’.
Competency (also sometimes called ‘behavioural’ or ‘situational’) based interviews are where an organisation has developed a set of competencies or capabilities to which they interview to. To give you an example, for a senior manager role they may have identified the competency ‘leadership’. The interviewer will therefore be looking for you to give him/her concrete examples of when you have shown leadership skills in the past. These questions are aimed at getting proof of previous success as an indicator of future performance. Once you have given your example the interviewer will then funnel down with further follow up questions such as ‘’ what was the outcome of this action?’’, ‘’If you had to do this again – would you change anything?’’ and ‘’What did you learn from this?’’.
30 Tax Revenue Officer Interview Questions & Answers
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Get ahead of your competition by practicing from one of the following company question sets
Gain further insight into your interview by practicing from one of the following careers
We hand picked these industries based on your career that might help you prepare for your interview
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