Competency-Based Interviewing Skills

Online Workshop

Competency-based Interviewing Skills (CBI) is an interactive training program designed to teach you how to define competencies that drive performance and craft questions around core, leadership, and functional competencies; prepare the interview questions peppered with lots of practice. Moreover, it will help you to address the common mistakes that most hiring managers commit, such as conducting an unstructured interview or the contrast error pitfall.

The training methodology will be a balanced use of mini-lectures, case studies, role plays, and group discussions. Participants will have the opportunity to prepare and perform interviews using realistic scenarios.

Timings:

5 Sessions (3 Hours Each)
Two Days per Week Monday & Wednesday from 7 PM Till 10 PM

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Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Learn how competency models are structured
Prepare structured interview questions based on competencies
Build rapport and encourage interviewees to talk
Use different types of questions (behavioral, situational, job-related, stress and puzzle)
Observe the non-verbal signs (body language and voice) of the interviewees
Learn how to take short, useful notes during the interview
Fairly evaluate different candidates and avoiding the contrast error
Avoid the common interviewing pitfalls and selection errors

Outline

Module 1: The Nature of Competency-based Approach

Understanding different competency levels
Learning how competency models are structured
Comprehending the difference between traditional interviewing and competency-based one.

Module 2: Preparing for Competency-based Structured Interviews

Developing competency based questions
Avoiding leading and commonly asked questions
Preparing benchmark answers
Pre-assessment psychometric tests

Module 3: Conducting Competency-based Interviews

Building rapport with the interviewees
Using different behavior-based questions to asses and evaluate the required level of competencies
Listening to the interviewees’ voice and understanding their body language clues (Non-verbal Clues)
Taking notes which enables fair and coherent evaluation

Module 4: Closing the interview and Evaluation

Learning how to professionally close the interview
Evaluating and assessing the appropriateness of the candidate to the required job.

Meet Your Instructor

Dr. Magued Naguib

HR & Business Consultant

25+ Years of diversified work experience in Egypt and the Gulf area as a Freelance Trainer & Consultant in Different business sectors (HR, Sales, Marketing, Counseling, Training & Development, and Business Consultations), Group Director of Human Resources, Freelance & Online Certified Trainer, AUC Lecturer.