Interviewing skills for recruitment

A shortage of candidates with the right skills, talents and abilities has created a fiercely competitive recruitment market. This is widely seen as one of the key problems facing organisations. The success of an organisation depends upon having the right people; therefore, adopting an integrated recruitment and selection strategy is important.

This workshop will provide participants with practical guidance on preparing for and conducting interviews, in addition to covering other vital areas necessary for effective and efficient recruitment and selection.

Aim
The aim is to enable managers at all levels to conduct effective recruitment and selection interviews.

Objectives
At the end of the one day workshop participants will be able to:

Prepare for an individual and panel interviews
Develop a range of appropriate questions
Understand the legal implications and the need to follow company policy and procedures
Demonstrate different questioning styles
Select candidates on the basis of the job requirements
Provide constructive feedback to unsuccessful candidates

The programme covers

Preparation for recruitment interviews
Open and probing questioning
Active listening
Effective interviewing

What we can do?

We can adapt the programme to meet your company’s specific needs - We have a number of interviewing technique programmes covering Learning Needs analysis, Disciplinary and Capability interviewing please contact us for more details

Interview Questions

For interviewers asking questions that will let you see how a candidate may perform are often difficult to frame. Sometimes we ask questions which give us no insight into whether the candidate has the ability to perform well in the role or will fit into the organisation.

Here are some sample questions to help you understand the candidate better and establish their qualities, attributes and ability.

• What are the most satisfying and the most frustrating aspects of your current job?

• Which of all the jobs you have done have you found the most interesting and why?

• Tell me about a problem you had to deal with and what you did?

• What would you do if you had a problem that you could not deal with?

• What has been your greatest achievement in your working history?

For more information on planning for interviews
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