Competency-based project manager interview practice
Evidence-led questions on planning, stakeholder decisions, risk, budgets and recovering projects when delivery slips. Practise the 6 questions the real interviewer asks with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About this interview
A competency-based project manager interview asks for detailed examples of how you have delivered real projects. The panel assesses your personal decisions across planning, stakeholders, risk, resources and recovery, so it will often probe who did what and why.
How to prepare
- Map the main competencies in the job description to different projects from your experience.
- Prepare examples with a clear context, your own actions, measurable evidence and lessons learnt.
- Review how you have used plans, risk registers, budgets and decision logs in practice.
- Choose one difficult stakeholder example where you can explain the trade-off without blaming anyone.
- Be ready to discuss a project that struggled as carefully as one that succeeded.
Common mistakes
- Describing project methods without showing how you used them in a real situation.
- Saying what the team did while leaving your own decisions unclear.
- Presenting every project as trouble-free and avoiding lessons from failure.
- Giving results without explaining the baseline, constraint or evidence.
What to expect
A real mock interview
6 questions the way the real interviewer asks, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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