Effective Interviewing!®

Behavior Based Interviewing Training for Hiring Top Talent

“Your interviewing skill training program “Effective Interviewing!® is useful for every type of interviewer, from the beginner to the most seasoned.”
Technical Recruiter | Microsoft

“I had always thought that interviewing was an ‘unlearnable’ skill. I was wrong. Your interviewing skill training was extremely useful.”
Managing Director | Bank of America

“We value our relationship with LSA Global. We came to LSA because we wanted to improve overall behavioral interviewing capabilities of our managers to increase the probability of both hiring top talent and future leaders. LSA designed a highly customized solution for our business and culture. We are currently rolling out this solution to our leaders. I would highly recommend LSA Global as a top quality resource.”
Rae Phillips | HR Project Manager | Polycom

Behavior Based Interviewing Skills Training Program:

  • Are you hiring the talent that you need?

  • Is the hiring process too long or complex?

  • Does your hiring or selection process lack consistency?

  • Are you making hiring or interviewing mistakes?

According to Harvard Business Review, up to 50% of all executive hires end in firing or resignation. Why? According to Harvard, success today depends increasingly on intangible competencies–like teamwork and cross-cultural literacy–rarely found on resumes.

Our behavior based interviewing skill training program “Effective Interviewing!®” is a powerful and proven interactive seminar that gives an organization and its managers the ability to make the right hiring decisions – and avoid costly mistakes. We provide competency-based behavior based interviewing training, using the recognized principle that past and present behavior is the best predictor of future employee retention and performance.

Whether you’re an experienced or novice interviewer, you will benefit from these techniques and will be able to use them to reduce risk in your next interview. The result? You’ll have better interviewing skills which lead to better hires and a competitive edge for your team.

Drawing on a menu of forty-eight competencies, you learn how to describe jobs and successful candidates. Most of the seminar time is spent on questioning techniques and role-play. Pointers are also provided on how to keep your interviews legally compliant and probe for technical competencies. Participants practice these techniques, then learn how to make the best hiring decision.

The full day interviewing skill training program combines easily understood concepts with easy-to-apply techniques in the following five modules:

1. Interviewing Concepts

Identify behavioral competencies, and learn to conduct selection interviews using behavior based competency interviewing.

2. Defining the Job and Candidate

Use a menu of competencies to develop a specific Job/Candidate Profile that focuses on essential functions and the corporate culture of your company.

3. Interview Procedures

Relax the candidate and keep your questions legal and compliant. Practice taking notes, and listen for evidence of competencies while the instructor conducts an interview to communicate the interview model.

4. Interview Questions

Assess competencies in candidates using a variety of questioning techniques, and develop your own set of questions. Apply what has been learned by participating in role playing while receiving feedback. Hundreds of examples of probing questions are provided.

5. Making the Decision

Code your notes and create a candidate Balance Sheet that equips you with information to make the right hiring decision based on fit with a Job/Candidate Profile.

This behavior based interviewing training seminar is available in full-day, half-day, online, or shorter formats delivered on-site at your location.  All sessions include one year access to online behavioral interviewing support tools and job aids.

Target Audience: Managers and individuals that interview internal or external candidates.

To speak with an LSA Expert to learn about behavior based interviewing skills program customization and delivery options onsite at your company, please contact us.

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