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Hiring Right: The Competency-Based Approach (HRM107)

Hiring the right people is an important part of creating a high performance team. Effective interviewing is a critical aspect of this process. In this two-day workshop, you will gain helpful tips for resume screening, interpreting non-verbal communication, make effective hiring recommendations and decisions, and learn to ask the right questions which include behavioural interview questions to gain specific and behaviour-based examples of past performance. This workshop is designed to equip those who conduct selection interviews with a comprehensive knowledge of the principles, strategies and techniques of the interview process.

Objectives

Hiring right  is designed to equip those who conduct selection interviews with a comprehensive knowledge of the principles, strategies and techniques to enable them to get involved in every step of the interview  process and to realise that their success hinges on the quality of the people in their department.

At the end of this workshop, participants will learn how to:

  • Project a professional interviewing image for your organisation

  • Have a process for creating competency requirements for any give position

  • Know why behavioural interviews are two to five times more accurate than traditional interviews

  • Know the principles of interviewing

  • Avoid discriminatory interviewing

  • Set an agenda that keeps the interview proceeding on track

  • Listen effectively for hidden meanings

  • Develop effective behavioural questions to help get STAR responses

  • Conduct effective competency based interviews

  • Make defensible hiring recommendations/decisions

Outline

The Importance of Hiring the Right People

  • The cost of hiring errors

  • Key components of effective selection interview

Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices

Effective Selection Interviewing - A Step by Step Approach

  • Stage 1 - Planning and Preparation

  • Analysis of the open position

  • Determining job requirements

  • Developing selection criteria

  • Creating questions

  • Stage 2 – Contact time with interviewees

  • Stage 3 – Evaluation

Interviewing Skills

  • Listening for responses

  • Assessing body language

  • Asking effective questions – open, closed, probing, behavioural, Documentation

  • Evaluation and rating

Methodology

Lectures, interactive discussions, skits and demonstrations, questions and answers, role play.

Who Should Attend

All hiring and HR professionals as well as anyone who is involved in interviewing and hiring people for their organisations.

Date

3 to 4 March 2008
Registration
5 to 6 May 2008 Registration
25 to 26 August 2008 Registration
24 to 25 November 2008 Registration

Duration


2 days (9am-5pm)

Venue

SHRI, The Verge, Level 6

Fees

SHRI Member

S$630.00

SHRI Corporate Friend*

S$675.00

Non-Member

S$733.00

All fees quoted exclude 7% GST. *Non-nominees

For further information, please contact Ms Canny Jeo via phone (65) 6438 0012, fax (65) 6299 4864, or email
canny@shri.org.sg

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