Using Behavior Based Interviewing for Finding the Best Match for the Job

Behavior-based interviewing helps you hire people with both the right skills and the right fit. A poor fit never reaches full performance or engagement and tends to leave, and traditional interviewing predicts future success only about 10% of the time. Recruiting a replacement typically costs 50% to 100% of the person's annual salary.

New hires judge their decision from day one, and 70% decide whether to stay or leave within six months. This 60-minute webinar shows how to define job requirements and critical skills, align them with your culture, and assess what candidates actually did rather than what they say they would do.

You'll also learn where evaluation errors come from and how to build a planned hiring process from start to finish.

• Use the SOAR method to create behavior-based interview questions
• Apply a set of 43 behavior-based interview questions
• Follow top tips for interviewers
• Identify the sources of interviewer rater errors
• Link corporate values to employee selection
• Interview for best fit

• Understanding job requirements and the critical skills for success
• Aligning skills and abilities with company culture and how work is done
• Acceptable and unacceptable areas of inquiry
• How probing and follow-up questions make a difference
• Using a behaviorally anchored rating system to evaluate candidates
• Sources of candidate evaluation errors and how to minimize them
• Developing a planned hiring process from start to finish
• Building the interview process into your performance management system

The right hire depends on matching talent (skills and abilities) with fit (personal, cultural and social). Behavioral interviewing gives companies practical tools to improve their new-hire process and build stronger teams.

This session suits leaders, managers, supervisors, HR professionals and organizational development professionals involved in selecting employees.

• Leaders
• Managers
• Supervisors
• Human Resources professionals
• Organizational development professionals

Bob Verchota, SPHR, is the President and owner of RPVerchota & Associates, a human resources and management practices consulting firm. He has over 30 years of human resources and operational leadership experience. His most recent corporate assignments include serving as VP Support Services, VP of Ancillary Services and Human Resources, and VP Human Resources. Focus areas include organization change and employee development, talent acquisition, risk management, compensation and benefits, labor and employee relations, performance improvement, and other operational issues. 

Academic pursuits include an undergraduate degree in Business Administration, graduate degree in Healthcare Administration (MHA), and doctoral work in Organization Development EdD (abd). He has taught at the technical, baccalaureate, and masters levels in several colleges and universities.