Advanced Selection, Interviewing & Recruitment Skills

Course CodeCO00092

Course Overview

This advanced conference equips participants with modern behavioral interviewing techniques, addressing the limitations of traditional methods. With a focus on psychology and the latest advancements since 2008, attendees will master the skills necessary for effective recruitment, appraisal, and disciplinary interviews. Highlights include practical sessions, insights into psychometric testing, and opportunities to build confidence under expert guidance.

Course Objectives

  • Recognize the complexities of recruitment and selection in today’s modern environment
  • Understand and be able to implement the new recruitment and selection process
  • Be able to identify and write recruitment criteria for use in advertising, short listing and constructing effective interview questions.
  • Be able to demonstrate to others how the new process will save time and increase dramatically interviewing effectiveness.
  • Consider the concept of and know when to use testing, and personality questionnaires and when assessment centers are appropriate.
  • Be able to design and use the two-step questioning technique which has numeric scoring.

Who Should Attend

  • HR Managers and Senior HR Professionals
  • Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Specialists
  • Interviewers and Hiring Managers
  • Department Heads involved in selection and hiring decisions
  • HR Business Partners (HRBPs)
  • Organizational Development and Workforce Planning Professionals
  • Training and Development Specialists involved in recruitment processes
  • Psychometric Testing and Assessment Center Practitioners
  • Line Managers responsible for staff selection and appraisal
  • Professionals involved in disciplinary and performance interviews
  • Consultants specializing in recruitment and selection systems
  • Individuals seeking to improve behavioral interviewing and candidate assessment skills
  • Anyone involved in hiring, interviewing, or workforce evaluation processes

Course Outline

  • Why interviews are often so ineffective
  • Examining your current skill levels - Knowledge - exercise
  • Examining your current - skills - exercise
  • Interviewing first practice
  • Interviewing - observing others
  • Interviewing - What it's like being interviewed
  • The Myths about interviewing - pre-2008 opinions
  • Completing your personality profiler