Essential Interviewing Skills
Essential Interview Skills
Interviewing skills are essential for managers and supervisors who must screen and select the right person for the role. Essential Interviewing Skills will provide you get the necessary skills to develop your competence and confidence in interviewing professionally.
What you will learn
✓ Conduct effective interviews to ensure that you select the right candidate for the job
✓ Prepare the interview plan for each of the screening stages of the interview and selection process.
✓ Prepare documentation including job description and person specification and develop competency-based interview questions
✓ Effectively screen applicants’ CVs against the job criteria
✓ Conduct professional interviews on the day
✓ How to comply with legislation and avoid common mistakes when interviewing
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Description
Interviewing Skills Essentials supports you in making the right choice of a candidate which best fits the role, your team, and the organisation. The systemised process taught, developing of the crucial plan for the interview process, identifying the competency-based questions to the structured interview provide you with the essentials to interviews. The key steps on how to actually conduct the interview on the day are addressed and the importance of the interview panel and their roles. Vital communication skills of verbal, non-verbal, questioning techniques and active listening as taught and practised on this programme. Your confidence will increase as you learn the tools to effectively conduct interviews avoiding common pitfalls and meeting the legal requirements when hiring. You will enhance your value within your organisation as you develop these essential interviewing skills.
What you will learn
✓ Systemised approach to interview
✓ The common mistakes and pitfalls to interviews and how to avoid them. How to remain legally compliant
✓ Importance of the Job Description and Person Specification and to effectively screening against the job criteria
✓ How to prepare for an interview with a plan and documents
✓ Competence-based question development to accurately assess the candidates
✓ How to conduct effectively structured interviews and use an interview panel on the day
✓ Vital communication skills – verbal, non-verbal, questioning techniques and active listening
Who this course is for:
- Managers or team leads and business owners
- Human Resource Executive
At the end of this programme you will have:
✓ Practical experience in reviewing CV and developed questions for the candidate.
✓ Understand the legal considerations and requirements for the interviewing process
✓ A systematic approach for each of the different stages to the interview/selection process
✓ Understanding of the necessity and benefits of ensuring the process is appropriately documented
✓ Understanding the benefits of the panel-based interview
✓ Practical experience of conducting a structure competency-based interview
✓ Developed competency-based questions and a weighing system for the different phases of the interview process
✓ Increased competence and confidence in conducting effective interviews.
