'How to Make Good Hiring Decisions' Workshop Content

We conduct customised workshops for management teams which include:

 Introduction and Overview

• Pre-workshop assessments
• Critical recruitment issues

 If You Can't Describe the Job, You Can't Fill It

• Keys to effective hiring
• Characteristics of a workable job description
• Defining responsibilities and tasks
• Environmental influences and special conditions
• Two major factors when employing people
• Secret to effective hiring

 How to Personally Prepare

• Components in making a good hire
• Importance of mental and physical preparation
• Major mistakes in interviewing candidates
• Rules for effective interviewing
• Principles of successful interviewing

 How to Question for Results

• Role of the interviewer and purpose of the interview
• Questions designed to cause the candidate to talk
• How to gather job specific information
• Identifying and clarifying inconsistencies
• Practice interviews

 How to Interview, Evaluate and Select

• Importance of structure
• Six steps to create successful interviews
• Organising notes and effectively checking references
• Properly evaluating the evidence
• Making an effective decision on a candidate

 Personal Action Strategies and Recruitment Checklist

Client management teams also implement Fortune's 'Leadership In Action' multimedia training system in combination with the workshop.