Interviewing Skills Training Course

Course Aim

This Interviewing Skills Training Course will show you the skills and approaches necessary to plan for and carry out an effective interview, ensuring you get the right person every time.

Failings in the recruitment and selection process can do serious damage. On average, it costs over £6000 to recruit and train the right person for each role in the business and having to re-spend this because the wrong person has been picked will be very costly.

Course Objectives

By attending this Interviewing Skills Training Course you will:

• Know what the required skills are to carry out an effective interview
• Be able to plan and prepare for an interview
• Be able to give the right first impression to candidates
• Know what questions to ask and how to record the answers
• Understand what to avoid asking during the interview
• Know how to choose the right person for the job

Course Content

Here is what we cover in this interviewing skills training course

What is the purpose of an Interview?

• Why do organisations spend time interviewing people?

Preparation

• Agreeing success criteria and what you want from candidates
• Writing interview questions
• Interview Logistics

The Interview

• Meeting and Greeting the candidate
• Making the candidate feel at ease
• Asking questions and probing further
• Effective communication during the interview
• Listening and recording accurate information

What you can and can’t ask

• Legislation covering hiring staff
• What you can ask, should avoid asking and never ask

Choosing the right candidate

• How to come to a conclusion when picking the right person

Skills Practice

• An opportunity to carry out some mock interviews

Who Should Attend our Interviewing Skills Training Course?

This interviewing skills training course is for anyone who needs to recruits and conduct interviews to fill positions in their business.

If you want to:

• Know how to structure an interview
• Be able to ask the right questions to find the perfect candidate
• Have clear selection criteria to measure candidates against
• Have a fair, consistent and objective approach to interviewing
• Make your process a positive experience for candidates
• Get the right person for the job, first time

Then this interviewing skills course is for you.

The course is suitable for people of all levels and in all roles and industries.

Online Training Courses

A 1 day online live virtual training course with one of our highly experienced recruitment and interviewing skills trainers. You also get:

• A highly interactive online experience
• Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
• A digital copy of the course materials from the course
• A digital course certificate

In-Person & Online In-House

A 1 day training course with one of our highly experienced trainers at your location or online. You also get

• Course materials for each delegate to take away
• A course certificate
• Reporting on delegate evaluation
• Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer

Yes. We'll run some simulated exercises with you that will give you an opportunity to review and score and interview and also conduct an interview and receive some feedback

Yes. We look at competency based and also more traditional based approaches to conducting interviews.

If you book onto a scheduled open course, you are more than welcome to bring your process along and use it during the session. If we are running this in-house for you, we will ask about your process and what elements you would like to use in the session.

Yes. We have lots of useful articles in our blog.