A comprehensive promotional interview study outline covering everything from types of oral boards and study techniques to question analysis and answer delivery. To accompany your study outline, view a series of training videos detailing how to best prepare for your oral board interview. These videos feature Richard Dean, a 38-year law enforcement veteran and professional training consultant.

Here’s a small section of the study outline and two corresponding training videos:

Hundreds of videos of good, better, and best responses by real police officers answering a wide variety of promotional oral board questions. These interview questions are organized into nine different categories: opening statements, bragging points, supervisory and leadership concepts, policy and procedure, tactical or emergency operations, personnel issues, tough choices, hot topics, closing comments.

Here are a couple of sample questions:

See what it takes to succeed with nine full-length interview videos. Watch hours of footage featuring our highest scoring sergeant candidates participating in mock oral board interviews.

Remember, there’s no such thing as a perfect interview, but here’s an example of a successful one:

Put your skills to the test with simulated interviews. Choose to be asked random questions by category or take full-length interviews. With a camera equipped computer or device, you can record, save, and review your responses.

Here’s a sample question and sample full simulated interview: