Thursday 20th November 2008

Effective Interviewing

Description

This course is intended to aid the selection process, showing the interviewer how to select a suitable candidate and how to avoid choosing the wrong person. The key techniques for interviewing will be taught to enable the interviewer to match personnel profiles and applicants.

Who is this recommended for?

Anyone involved in the recruitment and selection of others or for those new to the personnel function.

What will you learn?

Questioning techniques
Listening techniques
Preparation and structure of an interview
Position and potential candidate analysis

Course content

Introduction
Importance of recruitment and selection process.
Job analysis, Job descriptions & Persons Specifications
Understand the difference between documents and how to use them successfully.
Interview Preparation & Structure
How to prepare and structure your interviews.
Questioning Techniques
How to develop a targeted questioning brief to support your recruitment decisions. Become familiar with different methods of assessment and how to use them effectively.
Listening Techniques & Effective Communication
How to overcome barriers to effective communication.
How to be sure you made the right decision
Understanding the control loop and how to keep the right people.
Interview Practice
Role-play to practice selection techniques.
Action Planning
What you have learned, how can you put your knowledge into action?
NB (Two day programme will incorporate Employment Legislation and selection tools/profiling in more detail)

Dates for this course

Thursday 30th October 2008
Friday 23rd January 2009

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