Advanced Interviewing Skills
Behavioural/competency based interviewing has become the norm and is the prime focus of most interview skills training programmes. While this approach does have some advantages it also has some significant disadvantages. For instance the questions that are likely to be asked are predictable so people who prepare well for interviews will do well, even thought they may not be the best applicant. The biggest disadvantage is, however, that a person may have the skills to do a particular task, but not be motivated to do it. As people are drawn to the areas that motivate them, a mismatch between competencies and motivation is a certain recipe for performance problems.
Our Advanced Interviewing Skills programmes teach people how to overcome these problems by using an interviewing by chatting procedure to identify motivators and by focusing on the behaviours occurring in the interview (instead of just focusing on the content of the reply). The length of the workshops vary depending on the approach the client wants to adopt. For instance, some clients want to add the techniques we teach to their existing competency based interviewing process, while others are prepared to move to an entirely new process.
