Hiring the right person can make the difference between your company’s future successes or future failures. It can make an equally dramatic difference in your own career and what the company’s top management thinks about you. It’s easy enough to say that you should always try to hire someone who is smarter than you, more energetic than you, more driven to succeed. But the real question is how do you do that? What should you be looking for, and what are the right questions to ask?
Participants learn how to:
- Learn the best ways to open an interview
- What to look for when screening resumes
- Understand who are the right people and why
- Discover why character really matters
- Learn how to spot imagination and innovation
- Understand why emotional maturity is important
- Learn to recognize intelligence
- Learn why hiring the wrong person can adversely affect morale
- Understand why a detailed job description is necessary
- Recognize the items in a resume that should raise the red flag
· Appreciate what topics and question cannot legally be asked and why
- Appreciate the preparation required to frame the best questions for the experiential and behavioralpart of the interview
- Understanding the best way to close an interview
- Determine the best way to check a candidate’s references
Outline:
1. Invest in Right People
2. JD and Job Ad.
3. Screening and Prepare for Interview
4. Interview Skills
Opening
Questioning
Listening and Observing
Closing interview
Role play and coaching
5. Post-interview Measures for Successful Recruitment
Who should attend:Managers, department heads and supervisors who have the responsibility of hiring others.
Length: one day
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