Standardized Interview Questions For Supervisory Employees
Learning Objective:
1. Prepare a list of standardized interview questions for all supervisory employees to use.
2. Develop the evaluation criteria for review and selection of potential candidates.
Activity/Training Technique:
1. As a warm up exercise, the facilitator will ask everyone to pair up with someone they don’t know well and conduct a complete interview – answering these 3 questions; 1. State the person’s name and Department? 2. How long have they been with the company? 3. Why they are attending this session? Each person is asked to present their partner to the group. When all interviews are complete, the participants are asked to choose which of the presentations they preferred and explain why? As the facilitator hears many comments, they ask the group to go back to the original instructions and evaluate the presenters again. Did they conduct a complete interview or just ask 3 questions? Along with the group getting to know each other, this demonstrates a quick example of the importance of listening, interviewing and evaluation skills.
2. The facilitator will ask each participant to complete a pre test of the participants’ knowledge of basic employment …show more content…
Using the 10 questions developed in exercise 4, new groups of 4 will role play 3 new scenarios that now involve the interviewees and their responses. The first applicant will be someone with a lot of experience, big gaps in employment history and shares plenty of negative experiences in her past employment. The second applicant is chatty, friendly, has some of the skills required and plenty of personal anecdotes. The third applicant has the required skills and knowledge of the position, came prepared with related questions and has little experience. Based on the 3 interviews, each group is asked to share which candidate they selected and why. Participants learn that without selection and evaluation criteria, selection would be varied and the best candidates might be
1. Prepare a list of standardized interview questions for all supervisory employees to use.
2. Develop the evaluation criteria for review and selection of potential candidates.
Activity/Training Technique:
1. As a warm up exercise, the facilitator will ask everyone to pair up with someone they don’t know well and conduct a complete interview – answering these 3 questions; 1. State the person’s name and Department? 2. How long have they been with the company? 3. Why they are attending this session? Each person is asked to present their partner to the group. When all interviews are complete, the participants are asked to choose which of the presentations they preferred and explain why? As the facilitator hears many comments, they ask the group to go back to the original instructions and evaluate the presenters again. Did they conduct a complete interview or just ask 3 questions? Along with the group getting to know each other, this demonstrates a quick example of the importance of listening, interviewing and evaluation skills.
2. The facilitator will ask each participant to complete a pre test of the participants’ knowledge of basic employment …show more content…
Using the 10 questions developed in exercise 4, new groups of 4 will role play 3 new scenarios that now involve the interviewees and their responses. The first applicant will be someone with a lot of experience, big gaps in employment history and shares plenty of negative experiences in her past employment. The second applicant is chatty, friendly, has some of the skills required and plenty of personal anecdotes. The third applicant has the required skills and knowledge of the position, came prepared with related questions and has little experience. Based on the 3 interviews, each group is asked to share which candidate they selected and why. Participants learn that without selection and evaluation criteria, selection would be varied and the best candidates might be