Selection and Interviewing© Overview

What is Selection and Interviewing©?
Selection and Interviewing© is a program designed to enhance the skills of line managers involved in the hiring process.

How Can Selection and Interviewing© Help You?
This program enables participants to brush up on the practical skills they need most, to make good hiring decisions. These skills include:

• Understanding how to identify people who possess the right skills for a particular job

• What interview questions to ask

• How to ask those questions in a way that will force candidates to reveal their actual skills and abilities, rather than what they think the interviewer wants to hear.

Where Do These Principles Come From?
The principles taught in Selection and Interviewing© are taken from the study of effective selection technique and behavioral incident interviewing. Selection methods include a system for identifying and measuring the characteristics required to successfully perform certain job functions. Behavioral incident interviewing is a questioning technique which forces the respondent to use actual personal experience to describe their abilities and skills.

Who Should Take Selection and Interviewing©?
Selection and Interviewing©is designed for line managers who participate in the interviewing and selection of new hires. The program offers them the opportunity to enhance their skills, learn new techniques and design interview questions that will help them be more confident about making the right hiring decisions.

What is the Program Like?
Selection and Interviewing© prepares participants for the practicalities of the hiring process. They are exposed to proper technique, learn how to design interview questions and practice conducting interviews.

Module One
Participants learn a system for identifying, measuring and comparing the characteristics and qualities exhibited by applicants. This system employs a simple numerical rating scale that takes the guesswork out of comparative candidate analysis.

Module Two
Participants learn how to use the behavioral incident interviewing technique. This is a method for asking questions which forces applicants to answer using examples of their own work history and behavior. As a result, interviewers ascertain an objective picture of the candidate's work habits.

Module Three
Participants design actual interview questions they will ask candidates. This gives participants the opportunity to think about what they need to know and avoid selection based on intuition or "gut feeling".

Module Four
Participants conduct interviews using the techniques they have learned and actual questions they intend to use.

Selection and Interviewing© is a quick and practical way to prepare line managers to make better hiring decisions based on objective candidate assessment, proper planning and the competent use of good technique.