Essential Interviewing Skills will help you gain the specialist knowledge and practical skills to prepare for and undertake different types of interviews. The interactive role-plays and group discussions will help you use sound interviewing techniques to gather accurate information from any interview.  The key focus of this course is on recruitment interviews however the course extends to cover disciplinary interviewing as well as touching on exit interviews, getting the best out of appraisal meetings and support-type discussions with employees.

Essential Interviewing Skills is suitable for HR or line managers responsible for conducting interviews.

Accra:  28 Oct – 1 Nov, 18 – 22 Feb, 27 – 31 May, 29 Jul – 2 Aug, 7 – 11 Oct 2019

Dubai: 14 – 18 Jan, 4 – 8 Feb, 4 – 8 Mar, 13 – 17 May, 15 – 19 Jul 2019

Texas: on request

• undertake structured preparation for different interview situations
• use sound interviewing techniques to gather accurate information, interpret information, and make decisions
• plan and conduct a range of interviews: recruitment selection, appraisal, counselling, disciplinary and exit.

Course Outline

• Key skills
• listening, summarising, using hit words
• questioning and probing
• non-verbal communication
• Recruitment interviewing
• job descriptions and person specifications
• preparing interview structure and questions
• assessing evidence and decision-taking
• Disciplinary interviewing
• the investigation interview
• the disciplinary hearing
• return-to-work interviews
• Exit interviewing
• Counselling interviewing
• helping employees with work and non-work related problems
• Appraisal interviewing

giving and receiving feedback.