How to conduct a recruitment interview

Recruitment managers and officers, line managers and local managers who are called upon to conduct recruitment interviews from time to time or on a regular basis

At the end of the training, the participants will receive a certificate of participation delivered by the House of Training.

Introduction

• The recruitment interview and its position in the wider process of recruitment management
• The goals of the recruitment interview

The basics of better recruiting

• Know the legislation on recruitment and non-discrimination
• Understand the influence of prejudices in recruitment
• Identify psychological biases in recruitment interviews: the halo effect, the projection phenomenon, the negativity effect, the primacy effect, etc.
• Types and forms of recruitment interviews: the unstructured interview, the structured interview, the chronological interview and the situational interview
• Take intergenerational differences into account: generations Z, X, Y and baby boomers
• The role of each person involved in recruitment interviews: the roles of line managers or local managers and members of the HR department

The stages of the recruitment interview and its techniques

• Prepare for the recruitment interview
• Welcome the candidate
• Discover the candidate
• Present the position and the company
• Evaluate the chances of success and motivations of candidates: explore experience and training and ask scenario questions
• Seek the candidate's motivations throughout the interview
• Conclude the interview without omitting anything: reformulation, impartiality
• Know the different listening attitudes, including the most appropriate for the interview, and learn to vary them
• Understand questioning techniques, the phenomenon of silence and reformulation
• Decipher the candidate's behaviour: verbal, para-verbal and non-verbal language

Active training for the recruitment interview

• Practical exercises in sub-groups (Simulations of recruitment interviews between a recruiter and a candidate based on case studies)

After the training the participant shall be able to:

• have an effective methodology for conducting recruitment interviews
• better analyse and understand a candidate’s behaviour