Course Overview
The Interview like a Pro course is designed to help develop essential skills and techniques needed to conduct effective and insightful interviews and identify the best candidates for your teams. This interactive session will use a range of techniques including case studies and examples to provide a comprehensive guide to the entire interviewing process, from preparing for interviews, to evaluating candidates and finally to making the final decision-making.
Course Content
Introduction to Interviewing
- Understanding the benefits of effective interviewing
- Roles and responsibility of the interviewer
- Common interview pitfalls/challenges and how to avoid them
Prepare for a Successful Interview
- Understanding what you are looking for via clear and concise job descriptions /job roles
- Agreeing your Interview plan
- Planning for the expected and unexpected
Conducting Effective Interviews
- Creating a comfortable environment
- Effective questioning techniques (behaviours, Situational and Technical)
- Listening and observation skills
- Interviewing for Soft Skills and Potential
- Effective note taking
Evaluating Candidates and Making Hiring Decisions
- Technique for assessing skills, experience and cultural fit
- Avoiding conscious and unconscious bias
- Scoring Methodology
- Communicating decisions (positive and negative) to candidates
Other areas:
- Adapting interviews for virtual attendance
- Handling difficult interview situations
- Improving your own interview process via feedback
Course Benefits
This course will provide attendees with the techniques to build confidence and continuously improve their interviewing skills, while allowing them to enhance their ability to conduct effective and fair interviews and identify and hire the best talent.
Next Steps
If you would like to book a place on this course please click on the ‘Book Course’ button to the right of this page and login or register for a user account to complete your booking(s). Any queries please do not hesitate to contact us via [email protected] or call us on 01481 224570. If no date is scheduled for this course at the present time please click on the ‘Register Interest’ button and login or register for a user account so that we can add you to our course interest register. This register allows us to contact our tutors and finalise dates for a course as soon as we have a few people who have expressed their interest, so the more delegates who register their interest, the sooner we can schedule a particular course.