Purpose
This workshop empowers delegates to:
The Competency Based Interviewing Skills programme is a one-day workshop which aims to assist in
selecting qualified, successful candidates. Managers will be equipped with current interviewing skills to make their transition from ‘doer’ to ‘manager’ more successful and less stressful. This course will assist to examine your role in building a successful and productive team through proper recruiting,
interviewing and hiring practices. You will learn to practice competency-based selection techniques
that reinforce the importance of relating the interview to the specific job requirements
Objectives
To learn a systematic and legal approach for evaluating applicants.
Documenting staff selection procedures.
Develop accurate and complete job analyses.
Advertising for shortlist candidates for selection interview.
Thoroughly review employment applications by developing pre-selection matrices.
Planning and conducting behavior-based interviews and selection techniques.
Control the interview.
Making effective and legally defensible evaluation and hiring decisions.
Conclude contract with successful candidate and notifying unsuccessful candidates of the
result.
Outcomes
Understand the cost of poor selection.
Analyse the job/role to secure best fit candidate.
Identify general competencies and translate them into performance criteria.
Recognise the characteristics of and effectively develop behavioural-based questions.
Explore useful techniques for reviewing resumes.
Identify the elements to look for in candidates’ answers to behaviousar-based questions.
Explore the motivational fit aspects of the company, the job, and the hiring manager, to
select for success.
Follow a structured method for evaluating candidates objectively.