How to Undertake Effective Interviews

This course is designed to equip Managers with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct effective interviews in various professional settings. From understanding the fundamentals of fair assessment to mastering advanced questioning techniques, useful both nationally and internationally. This course offers a well-rounded approach to interviewing excellence and is aimed at Managers and individuals involved in the hiring process, containing downloadable content for referring to at a later date, also for enlarging text if required for visual support if needed, it may take up to 2 hours to complete based on your prior experience and knowledge! Please remember to use this course in line with your organisations workplace protocols as well as maintaining confidentiality throughout.

On completion of this course you will gain an understanding in:

Interviews

On completion of this lesson you will gain an understanding of why the interview process is necessary and how this needs to be carried out fairly, to ensure that all candidates are treated equally and without bias.

Interview types

You will learn various methods of interviewing and how providing a structured interview can aid fairness and provide a consistent approach to all candidates on completion of this lesson.

Weighting questions

During this lesson you will gain an understanding of the significance and importance assigned to specific questions in the evaluation process, gaining an understanding of how some questions may carry more weight than others and how the responses to these weighted questions can heavily influence the overall assessment of a candidate’s suitability for the position.

Presentations

You will gain an understanding of the relevance of the use of presentations and tests within interviews, ensuring they are relevant to the role and not overly burdensome for candidates by completing this lesson.

The Interview Panel

You will be able to explore the useful approach of having a panel for the interview process, why they can be useful and the importance of being able to recognise the job-specific skills through a joined up evaluation approach.

Preparing Interview Questions

Through completion of this lesson you will learn why it is important to prepare diverse questions that can apply to all candidates and how this is an evolving process.

Conducting an Interview

You will be considering how to provide an interview which is unbiased both consciously and subconsciously and why it is so important to actively listen to each candidate by completing this lesson.

Evaluating Candidates

Through completion of this lesson you will look at strategies for creating a fair scoring system within the interview process and also to consider how it provides a fairer result if there are more than one interviewer.

Providing feedback to Candidates

During this lesson you will explore how providing feedback in a constructive and positive manner can help to ease the blow for the unsuccessful candidates and also how this can help them progress for any future interviews that they attend. You will also look at how formulating a model, such as the ‘sandwich’ technique for providing feedback can be a more pleasant experience for both the interviewer and the interviewee.

Downloadable content!

You can download the whole of the course content, to be able to refer to what you have learnt at a later date if required, also this is in a PDF format and therefore can be increased in size for anyone that requires this due to visual impairment, therefore there is no audio support, as all information is included within this document.

End of course assessment

The course assessment is where you will be able to show off all the information that you have learnt, there is quite a lot, so making notes would benefit you for a quick recap! You will need a pass rate of 80% or more to pass and be able to obtain your certificate once you have passed, which can be downloaded and/or printed.

When you are ready to begin, click the “Start Course” button.

Please scroll down each screen and click ‘continue’ where indicated, also be aware of arrows or the relevant numbers on the bottom of the screen to click on as needed. Where possible, we have provided audio support to utilise if preferred.

When you are ready to begin, click the “Start Course” button.

Good luck!