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  • Hi there, my name is Richard McMunn from the police officer recruitment training company

  • How2Become.com, and in this tutorial, I will teach you how to pass the police officer interview.

  • So, it does not matter which police force you have an interview with, please do make

  • sure you watch this tutorial from beginning to end, because I promise you it will make

  • a huge difference to your preparation! I am going to teach you how to structure your answers

  • to the police interview questions correctly to make sure you gain the highest scores possible.

  • So, the question that I get asked all of the time, and I have been asked for about 15 years

  • now since I started my business, is: “Richard, was the best way to make sure I pass my police

  • officer interview?” And my answer is always the same. “You have to make sure you match

  • the assessable core competencies that are relevant to the police officer role in your

  • responses to every one of the interview questions.” And that is going to be the pure focus of

  • this video. So, please do take notes as we go along. Now, before I get into those important

  • tips and the police officer interview questions and answers, a very warm welcome to this training

  • tutorial. My name is Richard McMunn. That's me there in the centre. I'm going to help

  • you pass your police officer interview. Please do make sure you SUBSCRIBE to the channel

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  • you very much! Here's a really important tip. Make sure you go all out to match the core

  • competencies that are being assessed during the police officer interview. This is very,

  • very important. So, what are those police officer core competencies? Let's take a look

  • at them. So there is PUBLIC SERVICE, your ability to deliver exceptional service to

  • the public whom you are serving. There is also the core competency of OPENNESS TO CHANGE.

  • Do you embrace change positively? You need to, if you are going to be a police officer.

  • Can you deliver great SERVICE? Will you act with high degrees of PROFESSIONALISM? Are

  • you able to make decisions whilst you are under pressure? And also more importantly,

  • are you able to WORK COLLABORATIVELY with other people both in the police service and

  • those who have a vested interest, such as the fire service, the ambulance service and

  • the National Health Service? Social services? The list goes on. So, those are the core competencies

  • that we need to focus on during your preparation for not just the police officer interview,

  • but every single element of the police officer recruitment process. Let's take a quick look

  • at a sample police officer interview question and then I will teach you how to structure

  • it, and I will give you a sample answer as well. And you can use that during your preparation.

  • So, an example police officer interview question is: “Can you give me an example of a time

  • when you have worked as part of a team to solve a problem?” This is an example of

  • a ‘situational interview question’, or some people know them asbehavioural

  • type interview questions. And it is very important that we give a specific example that you were

  • in, when you worked as part of a team to solve a problem. So this forms part of the competency

  • of WORKING WITH OTHER PEOPLE. Are you able to work with others to solve team tasks and

  • problems? How do we structure the answer to this particular police officer interview question?

  • Well, my advice is to make sure you use what is called the STAR technique. I'm going to

  • give you a tutorial on that right now. So the STAR technique, and please do take a note

  • of this: Situation, Task, Action and Result. And if you understand this STAR technique,

  • you are more likely to pass your police officer interview. This is how you structure your

  • answer to the police officer interview question. You start off and you tell the interviewer

  • the SITUATION that you were in. You then move on and you explain the TASK that needed to

  • be done. You will then go into detail and tell them the ACTION that you took, and the

  • action that other people took. Also, I would suggest that theactionelement of your

  • answer will be the most detailed part of your response; the bulky part of your response.

  • And then finally, excuse me, you will finish off until the interview at the RESULT, following

  • your actions. So, it's situation, task, action and result: the STAR technique. And an important

  • tip, is to always make sure the RESULT of the situation you are in ispositive’.

  • So you will say the result is X, Y, Z, and it was a positive outcome following the situation.

  • So let us now take a look at a sample answer to that particular police officer question,

  • the interview question that utilizes that STAR technique. So just to recap, the interview

  • question was: “Can you give me an example of a time when you worked as part of a team

  • to solve a problem?” Here is my suggested answer using the STAR technique. “A situation

  • occurred whereby I was working as part of a small team at work, and we were tasked with

  • carrying out an urgent stock check of all company goods within a very short period of

  • time. My manager informed us that the previous stocktake data had been lost, and he needed

  • the new information urgently, and by the end of the working day. The team task in order

  • to solve this urgent problem, meant we all needed to work together collaboratively to

  • get this job completed accurately, and most importantly, on time for our manager. The

  • action I initially took was to suggest that we create a detailed plan of action that we

  • could all follow as part of the team, to complete the task by the end of the day. My job, as

  • part of the team task, was to walk around with a clipboard, cross checking the stocktake

  • figures that the rest of the team were generating. I have strong attention to detail skills,

  • and so it made sense that my skills were utilised to ensure the team task was accurate throughout

  • the duration of the task. We all supported and motivated each other to get the job done

  • on time. The end result was, we managed to get the stocktake completed on time and to

  • the necessary standard for our manager, as a team. We were 100 percent confident the

  • stocktake figures were correct because of the fact we'd implemented a ‘double-check

  • systemto make sure the work we were doing was accurate. I believe I am a strong team

  • worker and I can work with anyone to get important and difficult team tasks complete on time

  • and to the necessary standards.” So, that answer to that police officer interview question

  • utilises (situation, task, action). The STAR technique. And it is alsospecificin

  • nature. It is very important that you give answers that detail a situation that you have

  • been in previously. If you don't follow that, and you give generic answers, i.e. you are

  • saying what you would do in a given situation, you will not pass the police officer interview.

  • Now, if you'd like more help with your police officer selection process and the interview,

  • you can get INSTANT ACCESS to my police officer interview recruitment training course. Click

  • the link below the video. Go to my website, How2Become.com, and you can get instant access.

  • You can start using that course within two minutes. I cover every single element of the

  • police officer selection process and give you tons of sample responses to the interview

  • questions! I hope you enjoyed that tutorial. Please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE (thanks!)

  • and I would also very much appreciate it if you gave the video a LIKE. Thank you very

  • much and I wish you all the best in your pursuit to becoming a police officer. Have a brilliant

  • day.

Hi there, my name is Richard McMunn from the police officer recruitment training company

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