Interview Preparation – Level 2 PC to Sergeant

Course Benefits

At the end of this course you will be much more prepared for your police promotion board, you will have an excellent awareness of the assessment criteria and the competencies being assessed, you will be able to bring all of your learning together to present and brief confidently and professionally to the police promotion board panel and you will be aiming for maximum points to achieve top place performance.

Present with impact at your police promotion board

The PC-to-Sergeant police promotion interview is designed to test your leadership skills and qualities with a view to predicting your future leadership behaviour. It is not designed to test your operational abilities as these are tested nationally as part of nationally accredited courses.

Why buy this course?

In these times of austerity, there are fewer opportunities for police promotion and many more qualified officers to compete with. In some forces PC-to-Sergeant police promotion boards haven’t been held for many years. It is therefore vital to be well prepared and be in a position to succeed when the opportunity arises.

Many individuals go into their police promotion interview unprepared, lacking in confidence and as a result fail to present their evidence with impact. Very often candidates will spend hours and hours of reading force policies or critical incident manuals. This is unnecessary preparation and will almost certainly lead to failure on your big day. It is therefore essential to get your preparation right!

This course is specifically developed to ensure that you make the best use of your leadership skills and qualities and present them in a structured and effective manner that sets you apart from the crowd.

Course Content

It is essential to take your time to understand the interview process and the assessment criteria before presenting your leadership evidence.

This course will help you to fully understand the competencies which are being assessed by the police promotion board panel and will also provide examples of likely areas of questioning and model answers.

You will be provided with an interview structure to help you respond to questions asked by the police promotion board panel in the knowledge that this method has been tried and tested around the Country with many course participants securing top-place performance at their interview.

This module will also provide you with some top tips for the day of your interview to help further enhance your overall performance.

The package includes:

• An introduction to the interview process
• A comprehensive overview of the Competency and Values Framework (CVF) and the six competencies being assessed
• Opportunities to reflect upon your own evidence against the assessment criteria
• A structured interview model to enable you to present your leadership evidence with impact
• A variety of previously asked police promotion interview questions and model responses
• Top Tips to lead you to success
• Print/Word options to assist you to support with your planning and preparation

This course is specifically developed to ensure that you make the best use of your skills and qualities and present them in a structured and effective manner that sets you apart from the crowd.