Interview Training Courses
Competency Based Interview Training for managers and other staff who conduct selection and recruitment interviews. In this economic climate, it is important not to waste money on recruiting or promoting staff that aren’t suitably skilled for the job. Recruiters are also likely to face a higher volume of applicants for roles due to more being out of work than in recent years so need to be equipped to deal with this.
Training up your own staff also cuts out expensive recruitment agency costs and gives your staff transferable skills such as active listening and effective questioning.
Competency Based Interviewing is a well established approach to interviewing, and has been used by large organisations. It takes a semi-structured approach and focuses the interview on the skills required to conduct the job.
What other benefits will interviewer training bring to your organisation?
- Assurance that all your managers are using similar interview techniques
- Interviewers gain an understanding of the whole recruitment process
- Understand the theory behind the practice
- Practice skills using role play in a 'safe' environment
- Build a recruitment structure that is fair and transparent
- Enhance your organisations' reputation as a fair employer
- Recruit the right people for each job
- Increase your manager's understanding of employment law
A typical course can include:
- Overcoming barriers to effective recruitment
- Different types of selection tools
- Competencies: what are they and how to choose them. Technical based questioning
- Overview of the recruitment process; advertising, application forms, short-listing, decision making
- Skills practice: rapport building, listening, note-taking, assessing candidates
- Questioning practice using STAR (situation, task, action, result)
- Designing an interview
- Note taking, assessing candidates and making decisions
- Equal opportunities and the law
Courses will be tailored to meet your organisational needs
Give your managers
- The confidence to interview candidates
- An understanding of theory behind the techniques
- A tool-kit developed through the course; relevant to your organisation
Why choose Ampleo?
The course is designed and delivered by Anna Kane who runs Ampleo. Anna is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and has substantial experience consulting large organisations on staff recruitment and development. Anna has extensive experience of delivering interview training at a wide range of organisations including HSBC, The Home Office, Sussex Police, and the Financial Services Authority to name a few.
"When we identified the need for additional support for our recruitment interview training we were delighted when we found Ampleo. The key for us was being able to pitch the training and deliver at the right level and Anna took the time to work with us to develop a high quality course. Anna has run several sessions now and all have been very well received by our employees. We will certainly be interested in working with Anna and Ampleo in the future." Leigh Robertson, NatCen
