Workshop Overview

Recruiting qualified employees with the technical and soft skills that an organization needs is a primary concern for the HR team as well as the employees’ direct managers. This means that all managers – not just HR – must be fully aware of the main interview challenges, necessary preparations, evaluating candidates’ qualifications and linking them to job requirements.

Interviewing skills is 70% understanding the job role and duties, hence the competencies and qualifications required; and 30% the interview process, structure, and the interviewer’s communication skills. “The Stars Finder” workshop provides attending managers with the 360-perspective needed to find star employees among the vast pool of candidates, and boost their interviewing skills like never before!  

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the hiring process and procedures
2. Compute the time and cost of the hiring process to interpret the impact of a wrong hire
3. Extract job competencies from job roles / job descriptions
4. Explore different interviewing techniques
5. Apply the interview structure and steps
6. Describe tools for evaluating candidates and rating interviews

Workshop Content

Part 1: Proper Understanding of the Selection Process

• Identify hiring procedures 
• Hiring cost and time analysis, and impact of wrong selection 
• Who is responsible for hiring:  

• HR Role 
• Managers’ Role 

Part 2: Interview Designing and Preparation phase

1) Study/conduct job analysis for the required position 

2) Identify job competencies in the light of job duties: 

• Concept of competency based interviews 
• Identifying the difference between competencies and values  
• Different kinds of competencies: core, job related and managerial

3) Create interview Content: 

• Types of questions and samples for untraditional questions 
• How to make your interview more practical by using different tools role-plays/assignments and more
• “Can-do “and “Will-do” factors in selection decisions  
• Creating benchmark answers

4) Create interview rating scale 

5) Preparation: 30 minutes before the interview

Part Three: How to Conduct an Effective Interview

• Interviews Ethics 
• What should be measured in the interview  
• Successful interview steps and structure: Opening and introduction, asking, rating, answering inquires, ending, and discussing next steps
• Reasons for wrong selection 
• Things to avoid when hiring new employees
• Interview time frame
• Differentiate fake stars 
• Human rights  

Part Four: Evaluation

• Selection process evaluation 
• Candidate probation period re-evaluation 

Who should attend?

• Any manager involved in hiring team members
•  HR managers (and recruitment specialists)
•  Recruitment agents 

Workshop Fees: EGP 3,800