Competencies and your career

Behavioural competencies describe the behaviours, attributes, traits and motives that you demonstrate when doing a job—they enable you to do your job well.

Competencies can be useful throughout your career with the BC Public Service to help with situations, such as:

• Preparing for interviews and career changes
• Identifying work and learning goals
• Developing new strengths and skills for higher performance

Competencies and Performance Development

Competencies are just one aspect of Performance Development.

Start a conversation with your supervisor about:

• Identifying the competencies that will support your success for the year
• Incorporating the identified competencies into your work goals
• Creating a learning goal in your performance development profile to develop a particular competency
• Understanding how to increase your competency levels through training and informal learning opportunities
  • Review the competency development resource guide included in each staff competency description for learning ideas
• How exploring the competencies for different positions will help you reach your career goals
• How you demonstrated the identified competencies throughout the year

Use the Performance Development Profile tool to record the highlights of those conversations.