COMPETENCY VS. FUNCTIONAL INTERVIEWING: Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles is Betting on Eight Competencies to Build its Talent
Eight Competencies - Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles India Competency-based hiring is not new. Several companies have a list of competencies – both position-specific and organisational – that they look for when they hire. For some companies integrity may be the top competency. For others it may be interpersonal skills, and so on. But Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles (VECV), the joint venture between the Volvo group and Eicher Motors, decided to overhaul its approach to competencies. “All organisations have competencies in some form or other. We wanted to be different. Instead of doing the usual leadership, communication, relationship management type of competencies, we thought of coming up with a list that would stick in the minds of our people,” says Kinjal Choudhary, senior vice-president & CHRO, VECV. In competency-based interviews, questions are specific, with the intention of drawing out anecdotes. “The functional interviews tells you what the candidate ...