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Sharpen Your Interviewing Skills Through Psychology
Every manager wants to hire the best talent.
Sieving through a myriad of professionals to single out the ultimate new hire can be both laborious and futile. Yet for many, they appear to be highly successful in hiring homogenous talent profiles.
Truth is, how much of the real truth can be revealed during that short span of time together? Little. This outcome narrows even further when we are psychologically biased.
Whether you are a people manager or an individual contributor, everyone can be more effective in identifying the psychological behaviours during interviews.
Sieving through a myriad of professionals to single out the ultimate new hire can be both laborious and futile. Yet for many, they appear to be highly successful in hiring homogenous talent profiles.
Truth is, how much of the real truth can be revealed during that short span of time together? Little. This outcome narrows even further when we are psychologically biased.
Whether you are a people manager or an individual contributor, everyone can be more effective in identifying the psychological behaviours during interviews.
Objective
At the end of the workshop, you will be equipped with:
- A broad knowledge of selection methodology and how the interviewing stage fits in
- The different interviewing methods to suit different outcomes
- The psychological mind-set of the interviewer and the interviewee
- The tools to plan, prepare and manage your interviewing process
- The techniques to engage at a meaningful level with the interviewee
- Preventive measures to overcome varying types of biases in decision making
Outline
Part 1 is designed to build your baseline knowledge of the related theories. Topics include:
Part 2 provides you with opportunities to apply your new learnings through role plays and case studies. Topics include:
- Introduction to Selection Methods
- Profiling the attributes of an ideal candidate
- Outline of the full end-to-end Selection Process
- Types, purpose, costs & benefits of interviewing methods
- View common examples of different uses of interviews
- Understanding the role of the HR, interviewer and its panel
- Designing the interview process questions
Part 2 provides you with opportunities to apply your new learnings through role plays and case studies. Topics include:
- Understand the psychology affecting the
- Interviewer
- Interviewee
- Process - Mitigate biases in decision making
- Critical Success Factors backed by real-life examples
Who should attend
- People Managers with direct reports
- Functional Leaders who leads virtual teams eg. Project Managers
- Support Managers who collaborates with local, regional &/or global teams
- HR practitioners
Profile of Eileen Seah
Eileen is an Organisational Psychologist, certified Career Coach, Talent Assessor & the founder of The Art of Career.
She has taken on various back-mid-front office roles across the Defense Science, Banking & Finance, Telecommunications & HR consulting industries.
As a Talent Assessor, she participates in global assessment centers and have completed assessments for local, regional & global hires as high potentials, future leaders or internal promotion candidacy.
As a Org Learning Partner, she designs and delivers training programs (on technical & soft skills) to employers & training providers, seeking a high energy & engaging facilitator/speaker that inspire actions & ownership.
As an Executive Coach, she is certified to provide career guidance to professionals seeking fulfillment & high performance in their career journey, based on cognitive behavioral psychology and easy-to-follow templates. Listen to her interview on the national radio on tips to be happy at work https://link.artofcareer.com/938live.
In terms of accolades, she received the global Beta-Gamma-Sigma (BGS) award, an HP Silver Award for academic excellence as well as a 'hole-in-1' achievement for sports (golf).
