Course Code: HRM 101
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Advanced Interviewing Skills and Selection
Course Sector:
HR Strategy and Training
Course Dates and Locations
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Date
Days
Location
Fees
Enrollment
01
18 - 22 Aug 2025
5 Days
London, UK
$4,950
02
22 - 26 Sep 2025
5 Days
Dubai, UAE
$4,250
03
30 Nov - 04 Dec 2025
5 Days
Dammam, KSA
$4,250
Introduction
Training course introducion / brief
People interviewing for jobs today often fail because they are using yesterday's strategies. Recruiting technology has become more sophisticated, and the best employers are constantly changing the way interviews are done. This course gives you detailed strategies for handling tough competency-based, or behavioral, interviews so that you can communicate the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you have and that employers demand.
Course Objectives
At the end of the training course, participants will be able to
  •  Understand and assess existing policies and procedures for recruitment and selection. 
  • Identify effective, appropriate, and objective selection criteria. 
  • Develop, prepare and implement an effective selection process – using a range of methods as appropriate – that provides evidence against defined selection criteria. 
  • Ensure that candidates are evaluated effectively and that recruitment decisions are objective and documented appropriately. 
  • Examine and interpret different types of body language, specifically when people are not telling the truth.
Course Audience
Who is this course for, and can benefit the most
This course is designed for all those who are related to interviewing and selection process. 
Course Outline
The course aims and learning outcomes
Understanding Recruitment 
  • How to Measure and Financially Show the Cost of Bad Recruitment
  • First Series of Interviews
  • Self-assessment of Your Current Interviewing Skills
  • Fact vs. Fiction about Interviewing
  • Introduction to the Recruitment Process Map
Mastering the Process – The New Approach to Successful Interviewing 
  • Understand the Job and the Importance of the Job Description and Criteria Exercise
  • How to Write Key Criteria and its Link with Competencies 
  • Writing the Job Advertisement – how to attract talented people, winners not losers 
  • How to Write Interview Questions
Testing, Personality Profiling and References 
  • Shortlisting – a new approach to save time and avoid bias
  • Testing and its Improvements
  • Occupational and Ability Testing
  • The Growth of Mental Illness and the Impact on Recruitment 
  • Personality Profiling
  • How Assessment Centres Work and their Increasing Use Today 
  • The Importance of References
Finalising Pre-written Questions, Room Arrangements and Understanding the Vital Role of Body Language 
  • Procedure for Starting every Interview 
  • Finalizing your Interview Questions – writing scene setters
  • How to Use Probing Questions 
  • How to Score and Who does the Scoring? - practice 
  • Pre-interview Administration - from making all the arrangement including room set up
  • Understanding Body Language and Correctly Decoding it
Best Practices
  • Use of Skype and Phone Interviews 
  • Putting the Interview Process into Action
  • Time Table of the Interviewing for the Day 
  • Role Allocations for Interview 
  • Review of Interview and Individual Feedback 
  • Strategies for a successful recruitment
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Boost certificate of completion
BOOST's Professional Attendance Certificate “BPAC” is always given to the delegates after completing the training course, and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%, besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.
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COURSE METHODOLOGY

Our Training programs are implemented by combining the participants' academic knowledge and practical practice (30% theoretical / 70% practical activities).

At The end of the training program, Participants are involved in practical workshop to show their skills in applying what they were trained for. A detailed report is submitted to each participant and the training department in the organization on the results of the participant's performance and the return on training. Our programs focus on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.

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