Interview Pack

Your Interview Guide

This guide includes everything you need to prepare for and conduct an effective interview. As well as
generic instructions, the relevant interview questions you selected are included. There is space for
taking notes so you can keep everything in one place. This interview structure has been designed to
give you an overview of how well the candidate demonstrates the competencies that are key for Leidos
but also allows you to get to know the candidate as an individual and assess their fit for the role you are
recruiting for.

Candidate Name

Role Title

Assessor(s) Name

Department

Date

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 Opening Questions

Question 1

Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career to date.

Notes

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job

Question 2

What do you see as the role’s key challenges? How would you overcome these?

Notes

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job
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 Motivational Questions

Question 1

Why are you interested in this opportunity at Sky?

Notes

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job

Question 2

What excites you about this opportunity?

Notes

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job
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 Competency Interview Questions

Question 1

Tell me about a time when you didn't achieve an objective you had agreed to. How did you feel?
What did you do? What did you learn from this?

Sky Value: Forward Looking & Restless

Notes

Competency: Target Driven

Positive Indicators
- Pursues goals and targets with tenacity, seeing
things through to completion and exceeding
targets where possible
- Pushes self hard when faced with difficult
targets, puts in extra effort when required
- Sets ambitious targets for self and others
- Tackles demanding targets with enthusiasm
Negative Indicators
- Tends to give up when faced with demanding
targets or goals
- Applies minimal effort when faced with difficult
targets
- Prefers targets which are easy/achieveable
- Is reluctant to accept demanding goals

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job

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Question 2

Tell me about a time when you had to prioritise a list of activities because there were a numbr of
things due to be completed around the same time. How did you make your decisions on priorities?
How did you decide what not to do?

Sky Value: Creative & Action-orientated

Notes

Competency: Planning & Organising

Positive Indicators
- Plans activities and projects in advance
- Monitors progress against deadlines and
milestones
- Allocates realistic timescales for activities and
sets clear priorities
- Plans allow for changing circumstances and
priorities
Negative Indicators
- Starts without planning, deals with projects 'in
the moment'
- Does little to monitor project progress
- Sets no, or unrealistic, timescales and struggles
to prioritise work
- Creates plans without consideration or
contingencies, fails to adapt to changing
priorities

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job

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Question 3

Describe a situation in which you had to work under pressure. What was the cause of the pressure?
How did you feel and react? What impact did this have on your work?

Sky Value: Creative & Action-orientated

Notes

Competency: Resilience
Positive Indicators Negative Indicators
- Recovers quickly from setbacks and obstacles - Dwells on setbacks and allows it to affect work
- Maintains optimism in the face of difficulty or - Responds negatively to challenges
challenge - Reacts poorly to criticism, may be defensive or
- Learns from criticism and accepts it without fail to acknowledge opportunity to learn
becoming defensive - Finds it difficult to maintain productivity under
- Remains focused and productive under pressure
pressure

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job

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Question 4

Tell me about a time when you changed the way you worked to make something more simple. What
did you change? How did this simplify things? What were the benefits?

Sky Value: Customer-Led & Simplifying

Notes

Competency: Problem Solving & Analysis

Positive Indicators Negative Indicators
- Analyses all types of information (i.e written, - Focuses on one type of information analysis
numerical etc) - Draws irrational or incorrect conclusions, relies
- Draws well-reasoned conclusions from multiple on single sources of information
sources of information - Makes assumptions or jumps to conclusions
- Considers multiple possibilties to get to the root about the underlying cause of a problem
cause of a problem - Offers solutions which are ineffective or
- Produces effective, informed solutions to impractical
problems

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job

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Question 5

What things are having an impact on Sky's business at the moment? What will they mean for the
business? How did you learn about this? How does this affect you? How important is it to you to
keep up to date with these issues?

Sky Value: Customer-Led & Simplifying

Notes

Competency: Commercial Acumen

Positive Indicators
- Keeps up to date with competitor information
and market trends
- Identifies threats and opportunities from market
information
- Demonstrates awareness of financial issues
- Identifies opportunities to reduce costs
Negative Indicators
- Lacks awareness of competitor environment and
market trends
- Fails to identify implications of market
information
- Does not demonstrate a grasp of financial
issues
- Rareley spots cost saving opportunities

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job

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Question 6

Tell me about a disagreement you have had with a colleague /customer and how you resolved it.
What was the cause of the disagreement? What action did you take? What action did the other
person take? What did you learn from this?

Sky Value: Collaborative & Inclusive

Notes

Competency: Relationship Building

Positive Indicators
- Facilitates the resolution of conflict between
people
- Able to build meaningful, long-term relationships
with others
- Relates well to different types, and levels, of
people
- Able to build and maintain a network of contacts
internally and externally to the organisation
Negative Indicators
- Ignores conflict, or lets it escalate without
interviewing
- Struggles to forge meaningful, long-term
relationships
- Only relates well to certain types of people, may
struggle to build relationships with staff at
different levels
- Has few external contacts; does little to build or
maintain a broad network

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job

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Question 7

What do you do every day to make sure you are doing the right thing?

Sky Value: Fair & Responsible

Notes

Competency: Fair & Responsible

Positive Indicators
- Highlights behaviour that violates ethical
principles
- Maintains high ethical standards, acts with
integrity
- Admits to mistakes and/or failures
- Upholds commitments made to others,
exceeding expectations where possible
Negative Indicators
- Does not act on behaviours that violate ethical
properties
- Compromises ethical standards, does not act
with integrity
- Hides mistakes
- Does not uphold commitments made to others,
may let down those they work with

1 2 3 4 5

Below
Meets requirements Exceeds requirements
requirements
Acceptable level for the Exceeds what is needed for
Major development
job, some scope for the job, no development
required to do the
development required
job

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 Closing the Interview

Let the candidate know it’s now their opportunity to ask questions – make notes below if needed.

Do not forget to be an ambassador for Sky, here are some things you can talk about:

Talk about the positive difference we make for our customers, society and the planet. You might
mention Sky Zero or our £30m commitment to fighting racial injustice

Talk about believe in better and our innovation. You might mention the launch of Sky Glass or the
opening of Sky Studios Elstree to support our original content production

Talk about our culture and inclusion. You might mention our representation targets or our 6
employee networks with a total of 6000 members

Notes

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