Sessions

Concurrent Session
You Don’t Have an Employee Engagement Issue. You Have a Selection Issue
Room: Summit 212
In-Person Monday 08/23/2021 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM   Add to calendar
Competencies: HR Expertise, Relationship Management
Workplace Application:
Attendees will learn the difficulty in hiring objectively in person, the complexity of remote interviewing, and the essentials of succeeding and making the process fact-based. 

It is time to hire to fit the culture and move beyond hiring for skills, knowledge, education and experience. But with virtual interviewing and diversity, equity and inclusion pressure, how do you succeed? This session will provide you answers on how to ensure you are successfully executing a structured behavioural interview. The outcome: making hiring decisions based on the candidate's alignment with the company values. This structured process gives the hiring managers the tools they need to make the correct decisions to hire and whom to pass over. This means of selection provides a common foundation for ensuring the people employed will thrive in your employee experience, have high engagement levels, and have a more prolonged and positive impact on the company's success. Another outcome is putting the selection's responsibility, both the successful and less-successful hires, on the hiring manager; stopping the recruiter from being blamed for bad hires.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn how to get the hiring manager and the recruiter focused on the keys for success.
  • Find out how hiring for fit to the culture, and not hiring in one's own image, actually helps ensure proper attention is paid to hiring a diverse employee population.
  • Discover issues with virtual interviews that go beyond technology.
  • Learn the six steps to writing actual behavioural questions.
  • Learn how to use a panel interview more effectively.
  • Learn to identify the behaviors of the value to hire for fit to your company culture.
  • Find out how to apply a scoring process to the candidate's fact-based answers.
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Presenter:
Dr. David S. Cohen, Founder and Contrarian Consultant,
DS Cohen & Associates