The Structured Interview Masterclass™
Make objective recruitment and selection decisions by enhancing existing interview skills.
Overview
Select, interview and recruit the right candidate every time with a practical approach. Enhance existing interview skills and save time when recruiting by:
- Developing and implementing techniques to make objective recruitment and selection decisions.
- Adopting and practising a competency-based approach.
- Turning theory into practice.
Who Is It For?
Managers or decision-makers with less exposure to interviewing, but who are likely to be involved in the final stages of the selection process. Anyone:
- Interviewing, having never been formally trained.
- With experience in interviewing who wants to take this skill a step further.
- Responsible for developing an interview strategy.
What's It All About?
With financial pressures on businesses and the economy as a whole, selecting and recruiting the best high-performing individuals is at the core of any successful business. Yet, the recruitment and selection of staff remain a significant investment for any organisation.
This event provides participants with the techniques to make objective recruitment and selection decisions, highlighting key best practices and enhancing existing interview skills. Focusing on the 'competency-based approach', this event will highlight the methods that can be used to ensure you hire the right person quickly and efficiently.
What Will You Get Out Of It?
This workshop has been specifically designed for managers and leaders who need to plan, conduct, and manage successful interviews. It:
- Reduces recruitment costs and time.
- Provides you with the tools to identify high-performing people.
- Removes the risks of taking a gut feel approach.
- Eliminates vague hypothetical responses and veneer from candidates.
- Ensures you evaluate and measure technical and interpersonal capabilities.
- Maximises the potential for successful selection and retention.
Typical Workshop Content
It includes a mix of discussion and practical exercises. Participants will receive numerous opportunities to practice and hone their skills while receiving constructive feedback.
- Investigating and understanding traditional methods and the competency-based approach.
- How to use competencies in successful Competency Based Interviewing (CBI).
- The Structured Competency Based Interview Model.
- Identifying role requirements and integrating data from multiple sources.
- Design of practical CBI questions.
- How to conduct a CBI session and manage the interview process.
- Turning theory into practice.
- Designing the interview script.
- Awareness of potential pitfalls for interviewers.
- Tools to gain more candidate knowledge:
- Effective Assessment Centres.
- Introduction to Psychometrics - applications and practical use.
- Appreciation of ethical interviewing.
- Candidate feedback - best practice.
Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
The Structured Interview Masterclass™ can contribute to your CPD recognition with leading professional bodies or trade organisations. You can usually record your attendance in the 'organised learning' or 'self-learning' sections. Please check with your membership organisation for more information.
In-House workshops
We send our consultant to your offices to train your entire team through an in-company workshop. This allows us to focus on the team's training needs and enables us to deliver it at a time and date that suits them, significantly reducing the per-delegate cost. Prices are based on 12 delegates; we can train up to 20 for an additional fee.
Delegate places are available at from £330pp + VAT.
