Strategic Interviewing

What makes a company successful? While there are many answers to this question, one underlying constant of any company’s success is….its people. Strategic Interviewing is for companies committed to hiring the best possible people. It provides a process methodology, rather than event, to hire right, and hire to last. Some of the specific benefits to implementing Strategic Interviewing include:

• Improved effectiveness of the overall selection process
• Increased productivity by accurately matching candidates and jobs.
• Improved candidate perceptions that they are fairly treated through the selection process
• Established basis for the legal defensibility of interview

By using the Strategic Interviewing process your organization will have people with the right skills to succeed in their job, help bottom-line profitability, and keep up with current and on-going business needs. Your hiring team will have a simple process that makes sense to them and the candidates, and streamlines time-to-hire. Hiring managers will build job-specific interviews, and receive the tools to conduct and evaluate interviews. The process is immediately applicable on the job!

Learning objectives:

At the end of the workshop, participants will:
• Become more effective when conducting an interview
• Be able to predict a candidate’s future job performance
• Hire/promote people who will be successful in their new job
• Be able to defend hiring decisions

Course outline:

• Interviewing as a process not an event
• Planning Stage
• Preparing Questions
• Keeping Legal
• Conducting the Interview
• Evaluating the Candidate
• Using the Tools

Target audience: anyone involved in the selection and interview process

Course length: 4 hours (there is some flexibility in length based on experience of participants and specific organizational goals)