Planning Officer (Economic Development) practice interview
Turning development priorities into deliverable plans, indicators, investment cases and coordinated programmes. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role 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.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A planning officer connects economic priorities with projects that can be funded, delivered and measured. The interview explores how you use local evidence, balance different interests, define results and keep a plan realistic when resources or conditions change.
How to prepare
- Prepare an example of moving from a broad strategic goal to a costed delivery plan.
- Review ways to diagnose local constraints using labour, business, infrastructure and community evidence.
- Practise defining outputs, outcomes, indicators and assumptions for one development intervention.
- Think through how you would involve groups affected by a proposed project.
Common mistakes
- Writing an ambitious plan without owners, resources, sequencing or delivery risks.
- Treating consultation as a meeting rather than evidence that shapes the plan.
- Using activity counts as proof of economic impact.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, 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 4 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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