Recruitment & Interviewing Skills

Interviewing skills training course information

Recruitment & Interviewing Skills Training

Closed tailored courses are available on your site or remotely delivered for £745.00 plus vat (up to 8 attendees).

Scheduled public one-day courses are held at Preston, Liverpool, Manchester & London.

1 Day Course | 1 Delegate £295 plus VAT
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Course Overview

Recruiting for a job is an expensive and time-consuming process. This one-day course is designed to train delegates how to develop and improve their recruitment interviewing skills and strategy. The course focuses on ensuring they identify the best candidate for a position, but also includes the communication skills needed to make a positive impact so that the job offer is accepted.

Course Outline

Interview Preparation

  • Preparation
  • Research

 

Interview conduct

  • Building rapport (The Human Touch)
  • Controlling the interview

 

Establishing Skills, Competencies and Motivators

  • Analysing the vacancy
  • Using the CV as a basis for a question plan
  • Utilising the Job specification and candidate
  • profile
  • Attitudes, Skills, and Knowledge – What is essential
  • and what is desirable?

Questioning and listening skills

  • Paraphrasing
  • Note taking
  • Non-verbal communication
  • Remaining objective

 

Selling the position and the company

 

Closing the Interview Closing the Interview

  • Making a Verbal offer
  • Follow up Action

 

Review

Who will benefit from the Recruitment & Interviewing Skills course?

This course will be of benefit to those involved in the recruitment process in any way; including staff who have been promoted into management roles and experienced staff who want to update and refresh their recruitment interviewing skills. By the end of the course, participants will have gained the following benefits:

  • Examined strategies for effective recruitment practice
  • Reviewed the stages of recruitment.
  • Improved their skills in using job descriptions and person profiles
  • Learnt how to analyse application forms and cv’s
  • Reviewed techniques for questioning the candidate
  • Considered methods for closing the interview and outlining doubts
  • Gained an understanding of interviewing and the law