Successfully Hiring The Right Candidate with Behavioral Interviewing Strategies

It is very common to be completely blind-sided by a job candidate, who seems perfect during the hiring process, but a complete disaster once hired. HR & Employers need to evaluate their hiring practices to avoid hiring a wrong candidate for your organization. Behavioral interviewing strategies can do wonders when implemented properly. Employers spend a lot of time, energy and money on training a candidate to get the best out of them. Employers need to master the importance of job analysis and how to ensure candidate selection aligns with the needs of the organization. You’ll will need to learn how to prepare for an interview & ask behavior-based questions that enable you to determine the candidate’s abilities based on their past performance. This session will help you discover techniques for determining the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for a position and conducting effective and fair interviews. You will gain insight into the debrief and selection process.

The following topics will be discussed in detail during this session: 

• Behavioral interviewing vs Standard interviewing in 2022
• Gain insights into a variety of interviewing formats used across industries
• How to develop behavioral questions based on selection criteria that uncover the necessary competencies for the position
• Preparing and Facilitating a behavioral interview
• How to ask behavior-based questions
• Do not ask questions but use these statements that call for a response
• How to evaluate the candidate’s experiences and behaviors and determine his potential for success
• How to analyze whether the applicant is capable of critical thinking
• How to elicit detailed responses with structured questions
• How to ask spin-off questions
• Tips on taking effective interview notes
• Avoid interviewer traps
• Close the interview on the right note
• Utilize non-discriminatory evaluation tools
• Know what to ask during a behavior-based interview
• Evaluate information obtained from an interview to select the best candidate.
• FAQs, Examples & Case Studies

About The Trainer : Joe Aitchison, is Managing Principal and Senior Client Advisor at HRComTraK a HR Service Company providing employer guidance in the area of human resources, compliance  and benefit administration. , Mr. Aitchison is responsible for regulatory compliance and is HRComTrak’s resident expert on employment practice and benefits.  He provides guidance on HR best practice to clients nationally.   He is a known, frequent national speaker at conferences, presenting on "Employer Best Practice", Health Care Reform, employee benefits, FMLA and employment related federal regulations. Mr. Aitchison has obtained a life time certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources.  He has thirty years of human resource and business management experience working with international automotive manufacturing, commercial manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, transportation, retail, gaming & hospitality, food processing, healthcare, financial services, engineering & scientific professional services, public sector and not for profit organizations. Positions held include: CEO/President, senior executive, operations management and company director. Mr. Aitchison has served on several for profit and not for profit boards.