• How to effectively evaluate candidates against your job’s hiring criteria and the four critical evaluation categories (skills, fit, track record, and motivation) that predict on-the-job success.
• How to structure the interview team and process to that you and the candidate get what you need to make a quality decision.
• How to effectively and legally phone screen, interview, and reference check candidates.
• How to create a “wow” candidate experience and help candidates choose your company.

Built for your real world
All of our training is custom-built to align to your team’s challenges, goals, skill gaps, culture, and process. The actual workshop agenda is developed in partnership with you, the recruiting leader. We leverage real world interviewing scenarios to ensure that hiring managers and interviewers leave with practical, actionable strategies and tactics. We build these scenarios after conducting focus group calls with your team, so that we’re sure they’re on target.

It’s practical
We understand that interviewers and hiring managers have a low tolerance for training, especially HR training, that isn’t practical and easy to use. Our training doesn’t spend an hour telling them “why” selecting the right people is so important; they know that. It focuses on the “how” and is loaded with one- and two-page tools and templates to make interviewing and selecting the right people easy.

It’s customized to your hiring criteria and recruiting culture
We customize the training ahead of time to focus in on your competencies (“culture fit”) by leveraging your insights into why people succeed, why people struggle, why people quit, and why people are declined after phone screens and interviews. We include simple handouts that help establish the “answers” we’re listening for, so that we leave with common, better-defined hiring standards.

We teach a methodology that works
We don’t simply share a book full of our favorite interview questions. We teach attendees how to evaluate candidates by leveraging a methodology that’s easy to remember and use, and moves them away from unreliable gut feelings, unsubstantiated biases, and canned questions.

• New and experienced Interviewers and Hiring Managers.
• Note: We also offer Recruiter focused screening and interviewing training.

We conduct 1-3 focus group calls with your hiring managers and interviewers (and sometimes, recent hires, to learn about their candidate experience) before we design your training. This helps us to customize the content by learning more about the skill level of the interviewers who will attend and also learning to speak your “language”. It also helps your team get comfortable with us, our approach, and our expertise.

Our workshop facilitators are former corporate recruiting leaders and recruiters who have built and lived the interviewing best practices we design and share with your teams. Your managers and interviewers will know – right away – that our team has the credibility and expertise to help them hire the best talent.

Yes! We include templates that make screening and interviewing easier.

• Customizable Job Spec and Interviewing Process Prep Guide
• Phone Screen Guide
• Interviewing Guide
• Reference Check Guide
• Feedback and Decision Making Guide
• Interviewing Focus Area Assignment Grid
• Customized Competency Based Question/Answer Guides
• Selling Guide

We include tools/templates with every workshop we deliver. These are designed to help the training “live on” after the workshop is over. We’re happy to incorporate your existing tools/templates with this training, too, as it can help you to drive adoption and make the workshop feel more integrated with your existing process.

After the training, hiring managers and interviewers head back to their desks with easy-to-use tools to help them screen and interview candidates. This is not some theoretical workshop focused on the importance of hiring top talent; it’s all about the “how to.”

It depends on the agenda we custom-build for you, but – in general – these workshops are a half to full day.