Interviewing and Hiring the Best Talent
Audience: HR professionals, hiring managers, members of the interviewing team including engineers, sales professionals, support teams, and developers.
Overview: Hiring in today’s economy has many challenges: technical talent shortage, candidates from diverse cultures, different generational values, well-prepared savvy candidates, those who may generalize or exaggerate experiences, and non-HR personnel not knowing the legal boundaries of asking the candidate questions.
This class goes beyond behavioral questions. Participants learn how to screen for: 1) current technical knowledge, 2) problem-solving, decision-making, and communication skills, and 3) career goals and interests.
Participants will focus on specific, actual job categories and develop an interview plan to apply to a real upcoming interview opportunity. The day includes numerous group practices to apply key learning points.
Key Topics
- Build interview plans around specific job titles
- Coordinate the interview team to enhance candidate evaluation quality and minimize redundancies
- Avoid common interviewing mistakes (poor preparation, predictable questions, unclear goals, etc.)
- Choose and prioritize what to focus on out of the numerous potential assessment categories (problem solving, organizational skills, teamwork, etc.)
- Properly conduct phone screening sessions
- Create a candidate-friendly environment
- Apply five categories of interviewing questions to elicit richer job relevant information
- Adhere to US Equal Employment Opportunity guidelines to ensure legal compliance
- Follow a proven interviewing structure
- Sell the company (interviewing is a buying and selling process)
- Handle difficult and challenging interviewing situations including candidates who:
- Dominate the conversation
- Are difficult to understand
- Get stuck on a critical technical question
- Do not talk enough
- Bring up inappropriate topics (children, marital status, etc.)
- Appear to exaggerate or stretch the truth
- Appear to be a mismatch for the job early in the process
- Conclude the interview in a professional and fair manner
Reviews
Valuable guidance on preparation, creating questions, structuring interview. Cupertino-based Technology Company, Software Engineering Manager
Great structure to follow for interview preparations; helped standardize the evaluation process of candidates and will definitely help in finding better candidates. NetGear, Director of QMS
Instructor
JIM KENNEDY is one of the most respected training and development experts in the bay area. His extensive background includes success in sales and management positions in three industries. Jim was Training Director for World Savings before forming his own business in 1987. For the last 14 years, Jim has helped his clients solve business problems with his combined expertise in training and organizational development. He has authored numerous training programs and customized organizational development interventions. Jim is also a top-level facilitator/trainer on topics including: Team Building, Consultative Selling Strategies, Interviewing Skills, and Leadership Skills.
Jim has a BA in Behavioral Sciences from UC Berkeley and a MA in Organizational Development from University of San Francisco.
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
NETGEAR
Room information forthcoming
350 East Plumeria Dr.
San Jose, CA
Onsite Delivery
Contact: info@effectivetraining.com
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