Barbara Bruno – Interviewing Techniques

Interviewing Techniques

By: Barbara Bruno

Level: Beginner

Released: 9/19/2017

Duration: 1h 2m

Description

Successful hiring means successful interviewing. Even so, many of us go about this critical business task in a rushed and inconsistent manner that can lead to undesired results: hiring the wrong candidate, or letting the best candidate go.

What techniques can you employ to be sure you’re interviewing effectively?

In this course, expert recruiter Barbara Bruno highlights practical strategies for approaching and executing job interviews.

Barbara explains how to determine the purpose of the interview, set interview expectations up front for both your candidates and the hiring manager, and ask meaningful, creative questions.

She also shows how to conduct different types of interviews—including screening, general, and panel interviews—and shares when, why, and how to effectively keep in touch with candidates after the interview.

Topics include:

• Determining the purpose of the interview
• Clarifying expectations
• Making a good first impression
• Asking creative questions consistently
• What candidate questions reveal
• The basics of conducting an interview
• Creating brand awareness and getting referrals

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Recruiter Prep
• 2. Questions
• 3. Interviews
• 4. Future Actions
• Conclusion

About The Author

Barbara Bruno is an internationally recognized top expert in the staffing and recruiting profession.

She is the president of Good As Gold Training and HR Search and addresses 20+ events annually, conducts webinars, and provides in-house training and consulting. Her ideas are comprehensive, logical, easy to implement, and help guarantee that participants realize a strong return on their time and money. In addition, she offers several web-based training options like her Top Producer Tutor, which helps jump-start new hires and elevate the success of the most tenured recruiters or account executives.

Realizing the importance of the candidate experience, Barb created a customized career portal for the 95% of candidates not placed. The staffing and recruiting firms who have set up a career portal are now helping 100% of the candidates they attract while they enjoy the benefit of increased referrals, positive social media posts, and passive income.

Most recently Barb developed the Sales Performance Indicator, which is a simple-to-use metric tool that takes the guesswork out of consistent production.

Barb writes for numerous publications and authors one of the most widely read online publications, her biweekly No BS Newsletter. She is the author of several books and the creator of a mobile app for job seekers, and is often quoted as an industry expert.