Selection Interviewing Techniques

This 1 day training course will provide a firm basis for participants to be able to prepare and conduct a fair, thorough and structured selection interview.

Anyone with responsibility for leading some kind of team or project in this era of shrinking resources will be acutely aware of the need to have jobs filled by the very best people capable of doing them.

The selection process aims to provide an impartial way of measuring applicants against the requirements of the job - but this demands skill in being able to gather and interpret accurate and current data about an applicant's capabilities and limitations. Often, interviewers discover too late that they have failed to get beyond "rehearsed" interviewee replies and have wrongly selected a person who simply doesn't "fit".

Course content can include for example ......

• The costs of poor selection process
• Ensuring reasonably uniform interviewing conditions
• The use of essential versus desirable criteria
• Evaluating a stack of applications
• Practicing the design of behavioural questions
• Questions that can and can't be legally asked
• Working cohesively as part of an interview panel
• The value of planned simulations and skill tests
• Managing the pace of the interview
• Techniques for probing responses to questions
• Using an applicant rating method consistently
• How to conduct a thorough referee check
• Organisation selection policy and procedure