My life rated

Most of us know that multinationals like to use competency-based models to interview candidates. CVs do not really help you at that point, although diverse experiences help you find more accurate examples of past behavior. The funny thing is that your life ends up rated on a 5-point scale. When choosing your university you showed clear strategic decision making (or not), the sports you like show a level of commitment (or not) and the extracurrical activities you did provided you with a valuable experience (or not....).

It is quite a challange to talk about your personal experiences in life and have someone else rate them. Apparently I have shown result-orientation, commitment, ambition, resourcefullness and enterpreneurship. This has helped me survive my first interviews. My competencies were evaluated and found to be ok...... for now.

The dreaded assessment days are up next. I get to do group activities, role plays, individual assignment and psychological tests. After they will write a profile and judge whether I am good enough or not. Perfect strangers will observe me and write down the things I am good at, need to improve and my ambitions.

I will get a final rating.