Interview
Position:
DLC Chair
Applicant:
Panel member:
Date
Process:
Pre questions checklist:
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Introduce yourself and panel
Offer tea/coffee/water
Congratulate applicant for coming this far and thank them for taking time to come and
meet you
Interview process
Compulsory Conflict of interest question:
Can you confirm that there is no potential, perceived or an actual conflict of interest between
any current professional or private interests you may have and Auckland Council? (e.g. do
you or a family member have a private business that does or potentially may do business with
Auckland Council?)
CV Questions & warm-up:
Briefly ask any questions relating to their general work background and experience from their
CV, and cover off anything you are unclear on in their CV.
What is your understanding of the DLC committees and members?
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What attracted you to apply for this position?
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What are the key strengths you will bring to this role?
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What do you think will be the key challenges in this role?
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What is your understanding of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act and its purpose?
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Tell us more about your experience with Alcohol Licensing.
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What are your personal views on Alcohol Licensing?
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What is your understanding of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, and how may those principles
influence your decision making?
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Interview questions
Can you tell me about the most challenging hearing decision you have made?
What was your role?
What factors did you consider?
What were the risks?
What was the outcome?
What legislation needed to be referenced?
What was the regional impact? What was the local impact?
How did you address being challenged on perceived bias or pre-determined outcomes?
How did you lead to consensus?
How did you address conflict and challenge amongst panel?
Situation / task
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Result
Follow up questions for motivational fit:
How satisfied / dissatisfied were you? How did you feel?
What did you like or dislike?
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Can you tell us about a time when you actively sought input from a wide range of sources where there
was strong disagreement amongst those involved?
What was the situation?
How did you approach this?
What was challenging?
What did you do?
What was the end result?
How did you identify who to involve?
What community involvement was there?
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Result
Follow up questions for motivational fit:
How satisfied / dissatisfied were you? How did you feel?
What did you like or dislike?
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Interview questions
Tell me about a time when you had to communicate a difficult message to a varied audience.
What was challenging?
How did you choose to approach it?
How did the different audiences respond?
How did you ensure they understood?
What was the outcome?
What community involvement was there?
Situation / task
Action
Result
Follow up questions for motivational fit:
How satisfied / dissatisfied were you? How did you feel?
What did you like or dislike?
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Interview questions
If you were on the panel of a hearing in a different community what factors will you take into account?
What will be your approach?
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Additional Questions (as required)
Please can you confirm the time you are able to commit to the DLC
Are you willing to be considered to be a list member if you are not successful as a chair?
Post questions:
Ask candidate if they have any questions
Interview close
Confirm candidate availability to start (expected notice period)
Confirm salary expectation
Confirm eligibility to work in NZ
Confirm referee details on CV. We will tell candidate of our intention to contact referees
Reiterate recruitment process and timeframe, when we will be getting back to them
Close interview
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Post interview instructions
Rate candidate on each competency using the following rating key:
Not demonstrated evidence of the competency
Some Evidence – Poor or Marginal evidence of the competency
Good Evidence - Acceptable level of competency evident relative to the role and most of the
indicators are covered
Strong Evidence - Outstanding examples that provide evidence for all aspects of the
competency
When rating consider the following:
 The relevance of the behavioural evidence to that competency.
 If an applicant performs poorly on one competency, do not penalise them on the other
competencies unless the evidence is directly relevant.
 How much evidence you have for that competency.
 How recent the examples of behaviour are.
 How the candidate performed against the competency NOT against other candidates.
For each competency the interviewers should discuss jointly what the rating should be.
Applicant’s ratings. If you believe some competencies weight more heavily than others for
the role – consider this in your overall assessment. In your decision, it can assist justification
for not taking an applicant further if they have rated poorly on a highly weighted competency.
Assess each competency and decide overall if the applicant is suitable for the role.
PLEASE DO NOT DESTROY YOUR INTERVIEW NOTES – all must be kept
in records with the Recruitment Centre to fit in with Public Records
requirements.