Educational Seminar

Behavioral Interviewing Strategies: How to Make More Effective Hiring Decisions - This Class Has Been Cancelled

March 26 - 27, 2014
9:00 am - 4:30 pm

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.

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Day One: Employee Selection - What An Interviewer Must Know

• 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

• Successful interviews, getting more out of good questions
• Respecting EEO – a 15 minute refresher
• Looking for commitment – maintaining 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 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 the Speaker

JIM VANCE, PE, SPHR is a former HR Director and Training Director, who transitioned from successful careers in engineering to Human Resources and then to speaking and consulting. A Covey Leadership certified trainer and a former top presenter for a national seminar company, Vance has spoken to business audiences in thirty-eight states. Vance has dealt with a broad variety of personnel issues and has led high volume staffing efforts that filled management, labor and technical positions. His experience as a consultant engaged in long-term assignments brings balance and perspective to the critical issues of workplace communication, employment practice and getting things done through others.

 

Payment

Payment is due with registration. No POs or requests for invoicing can be honored. Checks should be made payable and mailed (to be received no later than 7 days prior to the start of the class) to:

DallasHR
5001 LBJ Fwy Ste 800
Dallas, TX 75244
214.631.8775
214.631.4533 - Fax
[email protected]

IMPORTANT: Advance registrations are required. To receive cancellation credit, you must send your cancellation request in writing to DallasHR no later than 7 days prior to the start of the class. There will be no refund if cancellation is received within 7 days of the start of the class.