An area of management training that can sometimes be missed is that of interviewing and recruitment.  While it is something that is essential to the growth of a company - if you do not recruit new staff, how can a company grow?

There are several key points to focus interview and recruitment training on, including:

• Increasing the confidence and competence of management in interviews
• Helping management to understand the purpose, value and objectives of interviews
• How to take a structured approach to interviews
• How to make sure that the most relevant people to the needs of the company are hired.

This is obviously an area where role play will work very well, either between staff, or by the introduction of actors into the mix, to help staff deal with issues and scenarios that they might not have thought of themselves.  However, interviewing techniques are something that can vary from person to person, as there is no one right way to conduct an interview.  From a more casual chat, to a strict test based interview, different techniques will suit different managers, and will also vary depending upon the job being interviewed for.

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