Interview technique advanced (English)

Success factor

Job interviews often only provide a few hours to form a professional and competent opinion. It is important to recognize the skills, potential and work attitude of applicants in a short space of time and to distinguish between facade and reality - and ultimately to hire the right person.

Key contents

• Requirements analysis: defining and describing the demanded skills according the Job description / advertisement.
• Planning and structuring the interview, developing and preparing an interview strategy
• Formulating situational questions to obtain meaningful information
• Relevance of consistent follow-up questions: active listening, pausing technique, confronting, controlling the interview process, role of the meta-level
• Evaluation and opinion-forming after the interview

Your benefit

In this practical seminar, you will learn how to conduct the competency-based interviews:

• You will know how to create relevant requirement profiles based on defined competencies and how to properly prepare, design and conduct challenging interviews.
• You will apply specific questioning and interview techniques correctly in the first and second interviews.
• You will understand how to provide the candidate with a positive "candidate experience" and thus score points in the "war for talent".

Participants

• Experienced HR professionals and managers who conduct job interviews
• Maximum number of participants: 10