• Using too much of your valuable time interviewing candidates that aren’t right for
  the job?

• Would you like to be able to learn more from a candidate in ten minutes than most people learn in forty?
• Wish your interviews asked the good questions that get at the heart of fit and performance?

You need Behavioral Interviewing Strategies!

In two powerful days, you will learn how to painlessly guide an interview conversation so that it is easy for a candidate to tell you what you need to know.  You’ll learn how to artfully manage the interview so that it saves time, minimizes mistakes, and becomes an invaluable screening device. You’ll understand what works and what doesn’t in your candidate selection process, and know how to develop the questions that get to the heart of fit and performance. 

Choose Two Day Course or One Day Only

Day One: Employee Selection: What an Interviewer Must Know

This practical hands-on session will help you understand what works and what doesn't in your candidate screening process and provide tools to help ensure that your interviews are on the mark. Employee Selection integrates the last thirty years of applied HRM research.  It brings together the useful information that you wish you had regarding effective candidate selection into a single content packed session.

• Four (4) key characteristics that all effective selection measures share
• 30 years of HRM research on candidate screening methods: what it tells us about predicting performance
• An overview of the four (4) best candidate screening methods that businesses have available and an explanation of why five (5) commonly used approaches waste resources
• The keys to ensuring that interviews predict performance
• The relative legal risk of interview structures
• The four (4) mistakes that the typical interviewer makes
• How to structure a very effective interview
• Behavioral, situational, and semi-structured interviews — how to develop questions that get to the heart of fit and performance
• Six (6) factors that impact how a job gets done and a powerful tool for exploring fit

Day Two: Controlling the Interview - Tips for Making Good Questions More Effective

Day 2 is a specially tailored version of the Core Competencies session of our popular Relationship Management seminar.  It contains 40% of the content covered in the Core Competency program. Controlling the Interview focuses directly on interview technique and is appropriate for HR practitioners and non-HR hiring authorities.  Day 2 of Interview Bootcamp builds out the skills necessary to conduct low friction inquiry.   It provides a practical strategy for quickly getting candidates to open up and tell you what   you need to know.

• Successful Interviews, getting more out of good questions
• Respecting EEO - a 15 minute refresher
• Looking for commitment - maintainng a long term focus
• What you think I said was not what I thought I meant - Multiple perspectives and their importance
• Level 1 active listening patterns that draw people out and communicate respect
• Influencing skills: tips for maintaining rapport and keeping a candidate on track
• Body language - how to quickly pick up on mixed messages
• How to communicate that you feel good about meeting a candidate when you don’t feel like it
• Strategies for gracefully handling gaffs, gaps, silences, and rough spots
• Beyond "Tell me about a time when..." - flexible approaches that make it easy for a candidate want to tell you what you need to know
• Strategies for ensuring that a candidate leaves the interview with the same level of self esteem he came in with
• Setting the stage...Putting it all together

About our Instructor

Jim Vance, SPHR is a former HR Director who came from a non-HR background. A former top presenter for a national seminar company, Vance is a speaker, trainer, and consultant who has addressed business audiences in 38 states. He has managed staffing efforts for all position levels, and has led recruitment for enterprise planning initiatives. Vance has interviewed thousands of candidates, and brings real world experience to this very useful program. He is president of Advanced Business Resources, a Houston-based management and communications training company, and coauthor of the books Magnetic Leadership and HR Strategies that Work.

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Location:

Doubletree Hotel - Richardson
1981 North Central Expressway
Richardson, TX 75080
972-644-4000

Instructor Contact Information:

Jim Vance, PE, SPHR
Advanced Business Resources
4912 Yoakum Boulevard
Houston, TX 77006
713-527-8893
Website: www.abr-training.com
e-mail: info@abr-training.com
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