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Training course:
Recruitment interviewing
Two hours • In-person or remote • 4-15 participants
4.6 out of 5 ★★★★½ from 12 recent reviews
About this bitesize training course
Recruitment mistakes are costly - both financially and for team morale – but identifying the right talent can yield powerful results.
This practical course helps managers conduct fair, thorough job interviews that help reveal the right person for the job, while avoiding legal pitfalls. They'll learn clever questioning techniques to uncover crucial evidence about candidates' capabilities, ensuring better hiring decisions and a stronger workforce.
Attendees of our Recruitment interviewing training course learn to:
Apply their knowledge of the current legal framework and the dos and don’ts of recruitment interviewing
Understand the key requirements of the job and the person, against which to evaluate CVs and applications
Conduct an interview effectively using a straightforward framework
Prepare and utilise good searching questions to probe the candidate for the evidence they need to make a decision
Assess the information objectively and make the appointment decision
Leave all candidates with a positive impression whether or not they are offered the job
Key details
this bitesize training course is two hours long and packed with powerful ideas for anyone conducting interviews of job candidates
designed for groups of 4 – 15
delivered by an expert trainer at your workplace, or virtually
interactive, with plenty of exercises that get people talking
customisable, to connect with your organisation’s values
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Provide powerful recruitment interviewing training for your managers.
For inexperienced managers, a recruitment interview can be just as nervewracking as it is for the candidate.
You may have seen signs of this at your organisation – subtle signs that your hiring processes might not be as robust as they could be. Perhaps you've noticed managers struggling to articulate why they chose one candidate over another, or you've heard discovered inconsistent interview approaches across different departments. Maybe you've even had to deal with the impacts of hiring decisions that didn't work out.
We've observed that even organisations with experienced leadership teams often lack standardised, effective interview practices. When you look closer at your managers' interviewing techniques, you might notice varying levels of confidence in handling difficult questions, inconsistent evaluation methods, or uncertainty about current employment legislation.
This practical recruitment interviewing training session – available as both an in-person workshop and live virtual training course – brings rigour to the way your managers conduct interviews. The focused two-hour training equips your team leaders with frameworks and techniques that elevate your organisation's entire recruitment process.
Consider your current situation. Are your hiring managers fully confident in their interviewing abilities? Do they know how to structure questions to uncover genuine evidence rather than rehearsed responses? Are they aware of the latest legal requirements in recruitment interviewing? These are critical questions that many L&D professionals grapple with when evaluating their organisation's interviewing capabilities.
The benefits of upskilling your managers in interview techniques ripple throughout the organisation. When your hiring managers master robust questioning techniques and clear interview frameworks, you'll see more consistent evaluation processes across departments. Your recruitment outcomes improve as managers become more adept at gathering and assessing evidence objectively. Perhaps most significantly, you'll notice an enhancement in your employer brand as candidates experience more professional, well-structured interviews – regardless of whether they're ultimately selected.
Throughout this attendee-focused training, participants explore practical tools that transform their approach to recruitment interviews. The session covers everything from current employment legislation to advanced behavioural questioning techniques, building a comprehensive interviewing toolkit. Your managers will learn how to structure their interviews effectively, ensuring they cover all crucial areas while maintaining a natural flow of conversation.
What sets this interviewing skills course apart is its emphasis on both the technical and human aspects of recruitment. While your attendees will master the mechanics of good questioning and evaluation techniques, they'll also develop the subtler skills of reading responses, managing interview dynamics, and ensuring every candidate leaves with a positive impression of your organization – crucial in today's connected world where candidate experience can significantly impact your employer brand.
Whether you're looking to standardise interviewing practices across your organization, ensure legal compliance in your recruitment process, or build greater confidence among your hiring managers, this recruitment interviewing training provides the foundation you need. After all, in today's competitive talent market, having managers who can conduct thorough, fair, and revealing interviews isn't just about making better hires – it's about building the organisational capability that drives long-term success.
Consider this investment in your managers' interviewing capabilities as a cornerstone of your talent strategy. The session equips your organisation with proven frameworks that reduce hiring risks, enhance candidate experience, and ultimately lead to better hiring decisions. As participants apply their learning, you'll see the impact not just in individual hires, but in the overall quality of your recruitment process.
Why book this training course?
🧑🏻💼 Avoid serious mistakes
There are important and legally significant do’s and don’ts for recruitment interviewing.
And yet, an increasingly wide range of people participate in the process – especially during team/culture fit interview rounds – without any formal preparation. Are you confident in what people at your organisation are saying and asking in interviews?
This training session gives you the peace of mind that all participants have a solid grounding in compliant and inclusive interviewing.
👩🏻🎤 Make interviews meaningful
Hiring quality makes a huge difference to the prospects of your organisation, especially if you’re scaling up fast.
Adding further interview rounds can be worth the time if the process adds additional rigour – but if the additional interviewers aren’t well-trained, it might add more noise than signal.
This training session empowers all participants to ask meaningful and revealing questions, so each additional piece of interview contact generates genuine incremental value.
🥰 Protect your employer brand
Inevitably, many more people will interview for a position at your company than ultimately get a job there. So the job interview process is a key moment in making or breaking perception of your employer standards within the candidate market, especially in the era of Glassdoor reviews.
This course takes a focused look at ensuring the process works well for every candidate, whether they’re successful or not.
“Maximal learning in a short, but intense, session. This is definitely the way forward for management training, as far as I am concerned.”
Professor Niamh Moran, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland ★★★★★
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