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Conducting a recruitment interview

Good recruitment relies less on intuition than on the quality of your reasoning and decision-making process.
This training teaches you how to structure predictive, fair interviews focused on future contribution.
You make recruitment decisions you can stand behind and durably reduce hiring mistakes.

HR and recruitment leads

Strategic positioning

Recruitment & managerial decision-making

  • Recruiting as an act of leadership and responsibility
  • Moving from a gut feeling to an argued decision
  • Owning the uncertainty inherent in recruitment

Performance & potential

  • Recruiting for future performance, not just past achievements
  • Distinguishing existing, developable and symbolic competencies
  • Assessing reasoning, learning and adaptability

Fairness, bias & non-discrimination

  • Identifying and reducing cognitive biases
  • Structuring the interview for greater objectivity
  • Making decisions you can defend on both a human and organisational level

Ready to get started right away?

Contact us to find out how this programme fits into your context.

Pedagogical Approach

  • A highly interactive and intellectually challenging course
  • Conceptual insights drawn from research in occupational psychology
  • Real-life case studies and role-play exercises
  • Tools that can be directly applied to recruitment processes
  • Individual and group reflection on practices

Tools & Methods

  • Recruitment needs assessment grid
  • Matrix of critical / developable / non-priority skills
  • Interview preparation checklist
  • B.A.D.E structure (Welcome – Gathering information – Providing information – Next steps)
  • C.A.R.L questioning grid (Context – Actions – Results – Lessons)
  • Cognitive bias checklist
  • Recruitment decision table
  • Candidate feedback grid

Ready to make your recruitment more effective and improve your decision-making?

Contact us to find out how this training course can help you structure your interviews, reduce bias and recruit more effectively and with greater impact.

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