Hiring For success: Behavioral Interviewing Techniques

Management Training Courses in Glasgow | Edinburgh | Scotland

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Training Course Outline

This workshop concentrates on the pre-interview preparation, the development of questions and their value, specific interview techniques, behavior based examples of past performance and the strategies that follow through on this process. This workshop takes the behavioral interview even further with a discussion of communication techniques and the use of other types of interview questions.

Prerequisites

No previous experience is required.

Key Benefits
  • Recognise the costs incurred by an organisation when a wrong hiring decision is made.
  • Develop a fair and consistent interviewing process for selecting employees.
  • Prepare better job advertisements and use a variety of markets.
  • Be able to develop a job analysis and position profile.
  • Use traditional, behavioural, achievement oriented, holistic and situational interview questions.
  • Enhance communication skills that are essential for a skilled recruiter.
  • Effectively interview difficult applicants.
  • Check references more effectively.
  • Understand the basic employment and human rights laws that can affect the hiring process.

What You Will Cover

  • The cost of hiring errors
  • Why use behavioral interview techniques
  • How to get the information you need
  • Advertising guidelines
  • Communication skills
  • Writing the interview questions
  • Defensible resume screening
  • Developing an effective interview format
  • Ethical and legal issues
  • Interviewing techniques
  • Asking questions and listening for answers
  • Reference checks

Duration

This is a 2 day instructor led course.

Location

UK wide