government of canada job interview
You have made it to the Government of Canada interview. Congratulations! If you can pass the interview you will be one step closer (or this may be the last step in many cases) to a cherished Canadian Federal Service job. In this article, I will help prepare you with how to manage and close the oral interview.

Basic items to expect in your Government of Canada interview:

•  You will never be interviewed one-on-one for a Government of Canada interview. To be transparent in their decision, you will have a minimum of 2 federal service employees conducting the interview.

• Hiring managers in the Government of Canada will come with an assessment guide to your exam.

• Interviews come in different forms. Each job competition may have a different method of assessing job candidates but all of the candidates with the same competition will be tested in the same manner.

Managing the interview

Throughout your interview your main task is to ensure that the members of the interview panel are always writing. If they are not, it is because you are not answering the question to their satisfaction-period. Ask them if you are off topic in your response, they will respond honestly. If they are frantically writing, that is a good sign but take time to pause after your sentences so that they can catch up with capturing your answers.

Closing the interview

Now that the interview is coming to an end, look for cues. If the hiring manager(s) start looking around, looking at the time, arranging papers, or if your time is up you need to speak up. It is decide to mention prepared questions and sound bites that will tilt the hiring decision in your favour (more about this in the book). When the interview has come to an end. Thank each hiring manager for their time and ensure to ask one person if they have a timeline one when they expect to have a final decision.

Reminder Your questions should not discuss salaries or benefits. Before ending, ask the hiring managers for their business cards or for the correct spelling of their names and express your interest in the job. Why? Because you will need this information to send thank you notes after your interview. Be forewarned that in certain departments 2 or more people may have the same name so be careful to determine in which unit that they work in the department while you are in the interview.

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