Successful Selection Interviewing
Boulden Management Consultants
Half Day Course
This fast paced, highly interactive half-day workshop shows participants how to conduct professional selection interviews. The selection interview is a conversation with a purpose. The selection interview is a conversation with a purpose. That purpose is to provide an opportunity for the interviewer to identify whether a candidate is suitable for a job vacancy and for the candidate to decide whether the job on offer is suitable for him or her. Here we cover the tools and techniques needed to master this process.
By attending this highly intensive half-day course you will:
Anyone who wants to acquire a methodical and professional approach to recruiting high calibre employees.
An overview of the recruitment process that placed interviewing in the broader context of the overall recruitment and selection strategy from Job Description through to Induction.
The use of competency profiles is a key part of defining a vacancy clearly and makes an important contribution to ensuring the recruitment process efficient, fair and consistent.
If someone has successful completed some activity or task in the past the chances are that they can do it again in the future. Behavioural event interviews are based upon getting a detailed account of what the person actually did in a specific situation, as a means of gathering data about the extent to which they demonstrate a particular ability or skill.
The biographical process is concerned with building up a picture of the whole human being in terms of their likes, dislikes and preferences. By asking a person what choices they made at key points in their life and what they liked or disliked about the result of those choices, it is normally possible to see a clear pattern of values emerging of the things the candidate seeks and those he/she endeavours to avoid.
The interviewer should ensure that any candidate who accepts a post with the company stays in situ for a reasonable length of time. The emphasis of the work in this area has been on ‘realistic job previews’ (RJPs.) which means that we need to give an up beat but honest picture of what working in the business is like.
In the EU (and the USA) it is illegal to discriminate against anyone when making hiring decisions on the grounds of factors such as Race, Religion, and Gender etc. This means that it is important to avoid asking questions of a candidate (or writing text in a advert) that touch on these areas because it could lead to an unsuccessful candidate claiming that they didn’t get the job as a result of unfair bias.
Feedback is based upon peer reviews using Boulden assessment checklists. Completing the assessment checklists is not only valuable to the people involved in a given case study, it also helps those completing them to gain an in-depth understanding of the building blocks that make up an excellent interviewer.
All of our workshops can be delivered as Remote Training via e-learning modules plus Zoom based virtual workshops. Please see our Virtual Training page for more information.
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