Interviewing Skills

This workshop gives interviewers the necessary skills needed to identify talent with the essential skills and values that match the organizational culture. It provides a review of the pre-employment and hiring discrimination laws and focuses on using behavioral and fact-finding questions to determine necessary abilities and work styles of candidates.

In this highly interactive workshop participants will:

Understand the purpose of an interview
Learn to stay within important legal guidelines for interviewing
Determine requisite competencies before the interview
Review position descriptions to identify behaviors critical for success
Prepare interviewing questions to ascertain core skill competencies
Identify candidates who fit the corporate culture
Practice and evaluate their interviewing techniques
Utilize a combination of behavior-based and fact-finding questions
for an accurate candidate assessment

Methods and focus: team exercises, questionnaires, skills practice and reference guides.