Behavior Based Interviewing - advanced behavior based interview techniques for hiring managers

HirePower is a 1-day interviewing skills training workshop (preceded by 30 minutes of online preparation using the HirePower Wizard) that fully prepares recruiters and hiring managers to conduct structured behavior interviews with job applicants.

Learn to conduct a structured behavior interview
A structured, behavior-based interview is one in which there is a planned format—or structure—to the interview such that all applicants are asked the same questions. The behavior based aspect involves having interviewers ask applicants for examples of previous actions—in other words, examples of their previous "behavior". The structured behavior interviewing approach is widely recognized by experts as being FAR more reliable than ANY other form of job interview.

What you learn in the HirePower behavior-based interviewing workshop
In the pre-work you will learn how to PREPARE for interviews, by identifying the best questions to ask. In the workshop, you will learn how to CONDUCT interviews—how to probe to collect meaningful and measurable answers to all your questions, how to control an interview and how to look and act polished and professional.

In the prework you will:

• Quickly prepare—with the help of the on-line computerized HirePower Wizard—a job description that pinpoints the critical tasks of a job AND identifies the key experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the position.
• Use the HirePower Wizard to automatically develop a complete and totally customized interview guide for the position: a guide that lists ALL the questions to ask.

In the workshop you will learn how to:

• Ask behavior based questions
• Collect measurable and meaningful responses to all the questions on the interview guide
• Take notes in an interview—in a totally natural way
• Control the interview so that the applicant stays focused on the information you need
• Sell your organization and the position during the interview
• Conduct interviews in a polished and professional manner
• Make objective hiring decisions based on facts, not opinion
• Know the questions you are allowed to ask and not allowed to ask (from a legal point of view) in interviews
• Conduct behavioral-based reference checks

The 1-day HirePower workshop can accommodate up to 12 individuals
An ideal group size is 10-12 and smaller groups work exceedingly well. A mix of individuals—i.e. some with lots of interviewing experience and others with little-to-none—is never a problem.

Other workshop sizes and lengths are available
Customized and semi-customized 1.5-day and 2-day versions of the HirePower workshop are also available. These workshops can typically accommodate up to 18 individuals and are particularly appropriate for organizations that want more time for practice and feedback.

Additionally, one-on-one coaching is always available.

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Unique features of HirePower

FULLY customized interview guides online at the push of a button
Even experienced interviewers with advanced skills in interviewing need preparation time before interviews; to determine the right questions to ask. With the HirePower Wizard, preparation is a snap. All you do is answer some simple questions, press a button and get a totally customized interview guide that is 100% job specific. No question is "generic", or taken from a list of predetermined job related questions.

Interview guides that contain ALL the questions to ask
The HirePower Wizard prepares a complete interview guide that contains ALL the questions and discussion topics to cover in the interview—everything from the opening "Hello" to the closing "Thank-you". It identifies the specific technical skills to explore and includes specific questions about the type and amount of experience to ask along with specific behavioral questions about competencies (non technical soft skills, like "communication skills"). HirePower even includes the key issues to discuss related to job satisfaction and motivation.

Objective, meaningful information in interviews
After this interviewing training skills workshop, participants will easily be able to evaluate applicants on simple, concrete and reliable criteria and make sound, objective hiring decisions. Bad hiring decisions resulting from a "gut feeling" will be a thing of the past.

Centralized database of all completed interview guides
The HirePower Wizard stores your customized interview guides online. At any time, an authorized individual can access any interview guide before interviewing someone for the same job. Or, if an interviewer is preparing to interview someone for a similar position, he can view an existing guide and make changes, without having to develop a totally new guide from scratch.

Accurate and clear job descriptions
The first step in preparing for an interview is to determine the best questions to ask. But only by first identifying and ranking the key tasks and responsibilities can you accurately and objectively determine the most important interview questions. The HirePower Wizard develops job descriptions faster—in about 15 minutes—far more accurately and legally defensibly than ever before.

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Who should take HirePower?
Any individual who is involved in the hiring and selection process and who either interviews job applicants or determines questions to ask applicants in interviews will find this behavior based hiring workshop very worthwhile.

Does the HirePower approach work for any type of interview?
The behavioral based techniques learned in the HirePower training are totally applicable to all types of interviews, regardless of whether the interviews focus on technical or non technical skills. The more senior the position, the more effective HirePower can be—because the more senior positions involve more complex skills and competencies that are impossible to accurately assess in interviews... unless you use the behavioral techniques found in HirePower.

Can I purchase the online HirePower Wizard without taking the workshop?
If you already know how to conduct a behavior-based interview and are simply looking for a fast and accurate way to prepare for interviews, you can purchase the online HirePower Wizard as a stand alone product.


Why HirePower is a better choice than other interviewing options

HirePower is more legally defensible than other options—including most other behavior-based interview programs—because all the questions that the HirePower Wizard produces are 100% job specific. If you can show that your questions are directly tied to key tasks of the job—which you can always do with every question the HirePower Wizard generates—you will be on far safer legal ground.

HirePower is exceedingly user friendly and easy to learn. It takes almost no time to master the techniques. You'll be able to use them successfully in your very first interview after the workshop.

HirePower's online Wizard can be incorporated seamlessly into any organization's competencies. HirePower has its own proprietary competencies and behaviors. However, it's specifically designed to be able to seamlessly incorporate any organization's competencies, behavioral descriptions and standard interview questions. Thus HirePower can dovetail perfectly with any recruiting system, or performance management system, currently in place.

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