Interviewing and Hiring the Right People

Hiring the right person the first time saves time, money and frustration. This 75-minute interviewing and hiring training walks through the process in six steps: understanding your organization's culture, conducting a job analysis, developing behavior-based interview questions, recruiting, interviewing and selection, and onboarding.

You'll learn to describe your culture and hire people who fit it, write effective job descriptions and postings, set selection standards and find new recruiting approaches.

The session also covers how to prepare for and run consistent, goal-directed interviews, screen applicants, follow legal guidelines, make the job offer and create an onboarding program that works.

• Avoid common hiring mistakes
• Describe your organizational culture and hire for fit
• Conduct a thorough job analysis and write effective job descriptions and postings
• Develop behavior-based interview questions and selection standards
• Choose innovative recruiting strategies
• Run legally compliant interviews and onboard new hires effectively

• Common hiring mistakes
• Defining organizational culture
• Conducting a job analysis
• Writing job descriptions and job postings
• Developing behavior-based interview questions and selection standards
• Recruiting strategies
• Preparing for and conducting effective, consistent interviews
• Understanding and complying with legal guidelines
• Screening applicants
• Making the job offer
• Creating an onboarding program that works

Rushing a hire or focusing only on technical skills without considering culture fit leads to early turnover, which costs time and money and frustrates employees and managers. This session takes an organizational view of hiring and highlights common mistakes.

It suits office assistants and managers, administrators, managers and supervisors, HR professionals, hiring managers, recruiters and business owners.

• Office assistance
• Office managers
• Administrators
• Managers and supervisors
• HR professionals
• Hiring managers
• Business owners
• Recruiters

Catherine M. Mattice, MA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is President of consulting and training firm, Civility Partners, and has been successfully providing programs in workplace bullying and building positive workplaces since 2007. Her clients include Chevron, the American Red Cross, the military, several universities and hospitals, government agencies, small businesses and nonprofits. She has published in a variety of trade magazines and has appeared as an expert in major news outlets including NPR, FOX, NBC, ABC, USA Today, Inc Magazine, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, Washington Times, Psychology Today and Bloomberg. Catherine is Past-President of the Association for Talent Development (ATD), San Diego Chapter, and one of the founders (and current president of) the National Workplace Bullying Coalition. In his foreword to her book, BACK OFF! Your Kick-Ass Guide to Ending Bullying at Work, Ken Blanchard said it was “the most comprehensive and valuable handbook” on workplace bullying. BACK OFF, and her second book, SEEKING CIVILITY: How Leaders, Managers and HR Can Create a Workplace Free of Bullying, are both available on Amazon.