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Conducting Legal Interviews™ (eLearning Signature)
Hiring employees can be an expensive and lengthy process. Managers are often in a hurry to fill vacant positions in order to maintain the productivity of their departments. They are usually so focused on getting the position filled, they may not realize they have asked an inappropriate interviewing question. Keeping interviewers up to date on legal interviewing practices is invaluable to your organization. Court costs and legal fees as well as time off the job can cost your organization both money and bad publicity.
Smart Leadership: Conducting Legal Interviews™ (eLearning Signature)
Keeping interviewers up to date on legal interviewing practices is invaluable to your organization. Court costs and legal fees as well as time off the job can cost your organization both money and bad publicity. This course is designed to educate you on how to create and ask legally defensible pre-employment questions based upon a structured behavioral based interview that will help you hire the right person and stay out of court.
Get the Whole Picture™: Asking Probing Questions in a Behavioral-Based Interview
This course was created for people who are already familiar with basic behavior-based interviewing. It is an advanced workshop-format designed to significantly improve probing skills. Developed in collaboration with Dr. Paul Green, a leading industrial psychologist and behavioral-based interviewing expert, this course enables participants to identify their personal probing style and then practice five effective probing strategies.
TrainingBriefs® Interview Preparation
When preparing to interview candidates, it’s important to ask questions that will help you evaluate capabilities, commitment and chemistry. This course helps you think about how you currently prepare for an interview and asks - what could you change to make your interviewing more effective?
TrainingBriefs® Interviewing: Probing Techniques
During an interview, when a candidate's answer is a generality, self-promotional, not behavioral, isn’t complete or the candidate’s non-verbals don’t match what the candidate is saying, follow-up with behavioral probes to draw out more information. You discover that the specifics the candidate gives can be linked to job requirements.
TrainingBriefs® Preparing for the Interview
New Micro-Learning! Selecting the right person requires a structured interview process that evaluates for three dimensions: capability, commitment & chemistry. An effective three-dimensional interview starts with preparation. The bottom line is this; a consistent, structured interview process is the single most important factor in conducting an effective interview.
TrainingBriefs® Progressive Discipline
New Micro-Learning! Progressive discipline is a process for dealing with job-related behavior that does not meet expected and communicated performance standards. This course will address this process so you can avoid a wrongful termination lawsuit.
TrainingBriefs® Recruiting & Hiring: Avoiding Illegal Questions
New Micro-Learning! Asking inappropriate or illegal questions is probably one of the areas that get people into trouble more often than anything else. That's because the courts and EEOC guidelines have made it clear that you can't ask questions that discriminate against protected groups, don't predict successful job performance, or not job related.
TrainingBriefs® Behavior-Based Interviewing – Following a Lead
New Micro-Learning! This course lays out an interviewing strategy best used when you want to clarify or expand something a candidate says or implies by his or her body language. This strategy involves asking follow-up questions based on verbal and non-verbal clues and often requires you to share an observation first.
TrainingBriefs® Behavior-Based Interviewing – Seeking Contrary Evidence
New Micro-Learning! Clear, pre-planned questions help the candidate know how to answer. But often a candidate’s initial answer isn’t enough. Then, you have to ask job-related probes to get the whole picture of the candidate’s skills. In this course, you'll explore the topic of seeking contrary evidence.
TrainingBriefs® Behavior-Based Interviewing – Target of the Question
New Micro-Learning! A behavior-based interview uses a structured interview that organizes questions under job skills, or competencies. Clear, pre-planned questions help the candidate know how to answer. But often a candidate’s initial answer isn’t enough. In this course, we'll explore the topic of returning to the target of the question.
TrainingBriefs® Effective Interviewing: Ask Probing Questions
New Micro-Learning! Effective behavior-based interviewing is all about creating a process. Probing questions are the ones to ask when you need more specific information or more focused information. Always keep in mind that your probing questions need to be directly related to the technical and performance skills you previously identified in the interview.
TrainingBriefs® Effective Interviewing: Controlling the Interview
New Micro-Learning! In order to properly evaluate a candidate for an open position, it is important that you maintain control of the job interview. Establishing and maintaining control requires, in addition to good questioning techniques, effective listening skills to know when to redirect the conversation. This is an important component of behavior-based interviewing.
TrainingBriefs® Effective Interviewing: Preparation is Key
New Micro-Learning! Hiring the right person the first time takes more than a gut feeling. It takes planning and preparation. The result? You will be able to interview and evaluate candidates in such a way that you get the information you need to identify the right person for the job.
TrainingBriefs® Evaluating the Interview
New Micro-Learning! So you think you know how to properly prepare for and conduct your interview but what do you do next? Once you have concluded all your interviews, the next step is to evaluate the interviews to determine who among all the candidates is the best fit for the job.
TrainingBriefs® Interviewing: Clarifying Actions & Outcomes
New Micro-Learning! In a behavior-based interview this is achieved by using a structured interview that organizes questions under job skills, or competencies. The clarifying actions and outcomes strategy should be used when a candidate provides an answer that involves team effort or uses the word “we.” Asking for clarification on specific actions that the candidate had taken and the outcomes or results of those actions is important for getting the whole picture.
TrainingBriefs® Understanding Behavior-Based Interviewing
New Micro-Learning! What many successful interviewers have found is that the way in which a person handled a specific situation in the past gives you valid information about how that person will approach a similar situation in the future. This is the foundation for behavior-based interviewing. Once you understand this concept, you can plan to ask the kinds of questions that will give you the information you need to make good hiring decisions.
Got Leadership?® Interviewing 101
Part of your job as a manager or supervisor is to create and lead a successful team. Being able to select the right person for the job impacts your team, your organization, and you! As a manager, taking a look at a person’s capabilities, commitment, and chemistry will help you select the right person for the right job, for the right reasons. This course gives you the tools to quickly understand the best (and legal) steps to successful interviews.
Got Leadership?™ Interviewing: Using Current Work Examples
Effective interviewing skill is an important resource for a manager. By the end of this course, you will be able to identify five probing strategies used in behavior-based interviewing and how to probe for current work examples.
More Than a Gut Feeling™ Overview (Manufacturing)
Based on the world-wide best-seller, this course uses the More Than a Gut Feeling concepts and models in a manufacturing environment. This fast-paced course will empower and increase understanding that the single best predictor of future job performance is past job behavior. Learners will also realize that their task in the hiring interview is to gather the kinds of information that will enable them to hire people who will be successful in their jobs.