Interviewing and Selection Workshop

Course Code – IS - MH

This programme is in line with Unit Standard 10978 “Recruit and select candidates to fill defined positions”

What is the cost of a wrong hiring decision?

Understanding how the 1995 Labour Relations Act and the Employment Equity Act, 55 of 1998, impact on the recruitment process

·          Compiling the job spec/person spec

·          Stick to the letter of the law!

·          Ensure you are looking for valid and justifiable IJRs

. Applying the Employment Equity Act in the preparation and conducting of interviews and the recruitment process

Interviewing techniques

·          Competence-based interviewing

·          Questioning skills

·          Listening skills

·          Note-taking

·          Understanding non-verbal behaviour

·          Providing information on the position and the company

·          Closing the interview

·          Simulations and critique

Taking a verbal reference

·          What to ask and how to ask it

·          Simulations and critique

Reaching a decision

·          Assessing the candidate

·          Making a job offer