Interviewing can seem stressful and intimidating, but it doesn’t need to be.

This course will help anyone responsible for conducting recruitment interviews to ensure everyone, from the candidates to the panel, has a useful and productive experience. It will also help interviewers understand the importance of preparing, from making sure the interview space is comfy and not scary to considering the potential impact of bias on selection processes.

About this course
Most people feel a bit nervous before being interviewed. But interviewing candidates can feel intimidating and overwhelming, too. After all, you’ll be keen to hire the best person for the role, and you’ll need to effectively interview a range of people to get to that perfect new recruit.

To recruit the best possible talent for your organisation, you need to make sure you allow your candidates to demonstrate their true potential. And you need to show them why they want to accept an offer of employment from you, too. It may seem like a lot, but there are some simple steps you can take to make sure interviews conducted are useful for you and your candidates.

What you will learn.
This course will help you to get the best from all interviewing candidates, so you can hire the best fit for your organisation and ensure you don’t stress them out or scare them off. It will show you how to use the STAR model to gain insight into the relevant experience that candidates have, so you know who you’re hiring. And it will help you to choose situational questions that will allow you to figure out how well they’ll handle the nitty gritty of the role you’re interviewing them for.