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How To Go About Answering Key Selection Criteria In 7 Steps To Ensure You Win That Interview - A Guide That Will Help You Throughout Your Career
Answering key selection criteria is an arduous task, even for professional resume writers, like me. They are time bandits, challenging and require a lot of focus and attention to make sure the answer given does, in fact, make a strong and compelling argument that fits the question.
Yet with a little practice and preparation it does become easier and the rest of this article outlines a system that you can use that will help to provide the best possible responses you can, in answering key selection criteria.
Step 1. Determine that there are, in fact, Key Selection Criteria that need to be addressed for your application to be viable. Download any position descriptions and skim read everything, highlighting key points and phrases that appear to be the key to success for this role. Are there any KRAs - Key Results Areas? Is there an importance weighting on any aspects of the role? Is there a word or character count limit?
Step 2.Once you have completed step 1 pull together all the terms you have highlighted and use them to create a statement about the key elements for success in the role. This can act as a guide for your responses to the Key Selection Criteria. Are you required to answer each criterion as a brief outline or in-depth?
Step 3. Now you can start to tackle the Key Selection Criteria. Highlight key words such as: Demonstrate; Experience, Knowledge of, capacity to acquire, qualifications, problem solving, team, leadership.
Step 4. To build your confidence select the criterion you consider the easiest, this could be one about qualifications and experience, perhaps. Create a short statement that outlines your qualifications and years experience and state your qualifications in full. If your work history includes titles that are particularly relevant include them too. This forms your outline response. If a more in-depth response is required add with an example of your experience.
Step 5. For each criterion you do the same as the above. A simple way to help you create strong examples is to use C, A, R - circumstance, action, result or S, A, O - situation, action, outcome. For each criterion create a statement following one of these formulas. For example, if you are writing about problem solving - the circumstance might be: There was a backlog in getting Christmas gift mailings out on time. The action would be: I researched the possibility of using express post parcels - this was still within the budget and the parcels arrived on time, with happy customers. The result: Without this many of the gifts would have been returned and had to be refunded due to late delivery. I have paraphrased the above and if I was answering such a criterion I would add a little more detail, but not too much.
Step 6. Since you have created a story for each criterion, re-read and edit each one, making them only as long as they need to be. You want to make every word count. Remember also to keep your answers in the first person, action oriented - by using verbs and positive.
Step 7. Have someone else review your answers. You can even get someone to read them out loud to you, or just do it yourself. This is a proven way to check for clumsy language and any mistakes.
So there you have it, 7 steps to answering key selection criteria that will keep you focused and should contribute to your success, as long as you follow them.
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