Interviewer and Hiring Manager Training
virtual or in-person training for teams

Looking for something more than just Basic Behavioral Interviewing 101 with legal dos and don’ts?
Are you…
- …looking to align your hiring teams on what good looks like, raise the bar, and hire even better talent?
- …trying to reduce bias and improve diversity hiring results?
- …seeking a faster process, with better conversion from screen to interview to offer to hire?
- …looking for ways to differentiate yourself and communicate your strong EVP through a better candidate experience that attracts top talent?
We’re here to help. Since 2005, we’ve been building custom hiring manager training for startups to leading companies around the world.
Our custom-built interviewing workshops are designed to teach your interviewers, recruiters, and hiring managers how to hire YOUR way. We consult with you early on to articulate your hiring principles, your diversity point of view, your critical behaviors/competencies, and your process. Then, when we collaborate with you to build your training, you get something tailored to your hiring goals.
“This training was excellent – customized to our needs and leadership competency model, and highly rated by our hiring managers. We are now planning to expand the training across all of Europe.”
Head of Recruiting, Russia – PepsiCo
Typical agendas include a focus on…
- How to evaluate candidates and make hiring decisions aligned to your company’s hiring bar
- How to set up a quality interview process and ensure you have the right interviewers, focused on the right criteria
- How to create and leverage valid and reliable best-practice behavioral, situational, problem-solving, and white-board questions to uncover evidence of skills, behaviors, achievements, and motivators – all required to predict success
- How to create an interview process that’s inclusive and helps you achieve your diversity goals
- How to make tradeoffs informed by your unique hiring principles (i.e., does pedigree matter?), so that your hiring teams align on your company’s approach to talent
- How to create a great candidate experience
- How to leverage great interviewing to attract and sell candidates
We custom-build the training content to align to your goals, your culture, and development opportunities. We can deliver the training in-person in your offices over ¾ to 1 full day, or virtually, via a tool like Zoom, over multiple days, broken into 2.5-hour modules.
After the training, interviewers and hiring managers head back to their desks with easy-to-use guides to help them better understand “what good looks like,” interview, select, and sell. This is not some academic workshop focused on labeling interviewing techniques or behavioral interviewing 101. It’s very “how to,” but delivered in a smart way that engages even your experienced interviewers and hiring managers.
This custom training is designed for teams of 12+ corporate interviewers, hiring managers, recruiters, and HR reps.
We conduct focus group calls with your hiring teams before we design your training. This helps us to customize the content to your needs. We get feedback from new hiring managers and very experienced hiring managers that the training was practical, highly relevant, and credibly delivered.
A typical workshop will have up to 20 interviewers and/or hiring managers in each workshop, so that we can keep everyone engaged, and keep small-group discussions and exercises small enough so that everyone feels like they’re contributing in your in-person or virtual training. If you have a team larger than 20 people, we’d deliver multiple sessions.
This training is built for corporate recruiting teams only. If you work for an agency or RPO firm and you like our approach, or if you’re looking for individual training, you can check out our resources for solo recruiters, agencies, and small teams here.
“Excellent! This is an important component of our plan to achieve our mission, and I’ll be requiring all of my hiring managers to attend this training. 5/5.”
VP/Hiring Manager, Electronic Arts
Who hires us?
EA Games. PepsiCo. Booking. Starbucks. Target. Dolby. Autodesk. Pinterest. Micron. Leading companies around the world choose Recruiting Toolbox as a partner when they’re looking to interview and select the best talent.
Why choose our custom interview training workshop for your hiring teams?
“5/5! We plan to deploy this training to every single interviewer in our tech org. It really highlighted how much we can improve what we’re doing and helped to get us all aligned on what good looks like.”
Head of Tech Recruiting, Booking.com
“Excellent! This is an important component of our plan to achieve our mission, and I’ll be requiring all of my hiring managers to attend this training. 5/5.”
VP/Hiring Manager, Electronic Arts
“5/5! I am recommending this class to all the interviewing members on our team. Well presented…easy to understand and great training material…great content that I am anxious to apply.”
Hiring Manager, Micron
“Feedback was great – professional, entertaining and respectful of their intelligence and time.”
Recruiting Director, Amazon.com
“5/5! I can leave today and immediately implement these strategies and tools. Exactly what I needed. I would definitely recommend this to my peers.”
Tech Hiring Manager, Starbucks
“Their team helped to drive excellence in interviewing, and has made a direct impact on the quality of talent we hire. Even our CEO has commented on the elevation of the talent bar.”
Recruiting Director, Yahoo!
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