Interviewing Skills for Supervisors and Hiring Managers: Keys to Conducting Effective Candidate Interviews

Whether you’re new to the hiring process or if you’re a seasoned manager, recruiter, or HR professional, you’re sure to find the powerful tips and techniques you’ll learn as a result of attending our Interviewing Skills for Supervisors and Hiring Managers: Keys to Conducting Effective Candidate Interviews webinar to be helpful, effective, and different from what you’ve heard in other training programs about interviewing skills. Going beyond the basics of what not to ask interviewees, Interviewing Strategies: Essential Skills for Hiring Managers focuses on what an interview needs to know to conduct revealing interviews designed to identify candidates who not only have the skills you need but who are also the best fit for your organization’s specific staffing goals and the requirements of the position you are seeking to fill.

• Clarifying your interviewing goals
• Effective interview preparation
• Key interviewing skills
• How to choose appropriate questions and questioning techniques based on goals and criteria
• Questioning approaches to avoid 
• Questions interviewees are likely to ask
• Interviewer bias errors to avoid
• Key listening skills for interviewers to utilize
• Interpreting what interviewees tell you 
• Considerations to use when comparing applicants
• Additional tips and techniques to utilize for effective interviewing
• Decision-making & selection criteria 

Going beyond the basics of what not to ask interviewees, Interviewing Strategies: Essential Skills for Hiring Managers focuses on what an interview needs to know to conduct revealing interviews designed to identify candidates who not only have the skills you need but who are also the best fit for your organization’s specific staffing goals and the requirements of the position you are seeking to fill.

• HR Professionals
• Recruiters
• Talent Acquisition Professionals
• Staffing Agency Professionals
• Managers
• Supervisors involved in interviewing
• Business Owners
• Executives

Mary Gormandy White is managing director of MTI Business Solutions, a leading Gulf Coast-based corporate training/talent development firm working with clients throughout the United States. She specializes in training and consulting services related to HR, management, leadership, communication, team building, Everything DiSC, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Six Sigma and more. Mary holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Communication. Her certifications include Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and Everything DiSC Certified Trainer/Accredited Workplace Facilitator. Mary’s professional background includes extensive experience in management, HR, instructional design and communication. She is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and association meetings nationwide.