Hello, my name is Richard McMunn from the police officer recruitment training company
How2Become.com. And in this tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to answer the questions
that form part of the police officer application form. So, if you're applying to become a police
officer, please do stick around and watch this tutorial from beginning to end, because
I genuinely believe it will make a big difference to your success on your police application
form. Now, before I get into my tips and how to pass the police officer application form
questions, a very warm welcome to this interview training tutorial. My name is Richard McMunn,
I'm a former fire officer of 17 years and the founder of How2Become.com, and I always
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the police officer recruitment process. Now, there are a number of sample police officer
application form questions. One of them could be “Please describe a specific occasion
when you have encouraged a person to view an issue more positively.” So, let me just
repeat that. “Please describe a specific occasion when you've encouraged a person to
view an issue more positively.” And this is focussed around a specific competency which
is WORKING WITH OTHERS, working with other people. And then what will happen within that
police officer application form question, it will then be broken down into a number
of different elements, different questions. So there are five in total for this specific
one. And these are: Why was it necessary to encourage the person to view the issue more
positively? The next broken down question would be: How did you encourage the person
to view the issue more positively? What did you consider when encouraging the person to
view the issue more positively? What was particularly good or effective about how you encourage
the person to view the issue more positively? And finally: What difficulties did you experience
and how did you overcome them? So there’s five different questions that we need to answer
there. The first tip is to make sure you actually answer the question. So why was it necessary?
So say it was necessary because… the next one: How did you encourage the person? I encouraged
them by doing X, Y, Z. What did you consider? I considered… What was particularly good
or effective? So you need to answer the question. Read them carefully. So let’s start taking
a look at how I would personally answer each question. So the first one, why was it necessary
to encourage the person to view the issue more positively? “I was working as a customer
services manager in a previous role and a long serving member of my team started to
become negative about some of the new changes the senior management team were introducing.
It was important that I encouraged her to see the changes more positively because it
would then enable her to complete her duties confidently and competently. It was also essential
that we all worked together as a team to embrace the changes positively in order to help the
organisation achieve its core objectives.” So, I specifically answered that question:
Explain why it was necessary to encourage the person to view the issue more positively?
I've given exact reasons why. Then if we move on to the next sub question, how did you encourage
the person to view the issue more positively? So that's how did you do it? How did you encourage
them? My answer would be: “I sat down with her, made her feel comfortable and then started
to explain the benefits of the changes and how they would improve the quality of service
we were providing our customers. I then went on to list each of her key strengths and how,
if she focused on applying these within her role, it would be a tremendous benefit to
the wider team and our collective goals.” The next sub question” What was particularly
good or effective about how you encouraged the person to view the issue more positively?
I would say “I approached the situation by focusing on the persons strengths and making
her feel an invaluable part of the team and the process of change. I used a confident
and motivating style of communication that resulted in the person eventually viewing
the changes as an essential part of the company’s development and how she would be able to help
us to achieve our goals.” So, I am actually answering that question. What was particularly
good or effective? What difficulties did you experience and how did you overcome them?
“The difficulty was in encouraging someone who was initially negative in their mindset,
and getting them to totally change their view to that of a positive one. I overcame the
negativity by focusing on the positive benefits the changes would have, and more importantly,
how I needed the member of staff to help us to achieve our goals.” I'm answering that
question in two parts. What difficulties did you experience and how did you overcome them?
So I'm actually, you know, answering that question. It's really, really important. Now,
if you want to download my full set of application form answers and it's important that you create
honest responses that are based on your own specific situations and scenarios you've been
in. Click the link below the video and it will take you through to our website here.
It's called How2Become.com. We've got a guide here that you can get access to within two
minutes flat from now, and it will teach you how to go through the entire police officer
selection process. It’s a best-selling guide. All the resources are in there. We cover the
different competencies for general police officer. Or if you go through the Met selection
process, click that one there. These are two options and there’s a short video of me
talking about the guide there that you will get, covers every different element, the police
application form, the tests, the interviews. So make sure you check that out. Hope you
enjoyed that tutorial. I love helping you guys to pass the police officer selection
process. We've been very successful at it. We've been online since 2005. So make sure
you check out that guide. Thank you very much for watching.