Even in the midst of a labor shortage, you still need the best people!
Interviews Don't Work
Sure-fire Tactics for Screening Applicants
When There Aren’t Enough to Go Around
Is the lack of qualified applicants driving you nuts? Sure. But now more than ever you need to make sure you’re hiring the best people. The only true way to determine how applicants will perform on the job and mesh with the culture is to watch them in action. Bob Wendover has been honing this process for more than 30 years. After all, hiring a front line professional for just one year is at least a $75,000 decision.
This interactive session includes 15 examples of what successful employers are doing to put candidates “through the paces.” A selection of those attending are offered “hot seats” where Bob and the audience create the processes for effective screening. Learn to detect whether the applicant you meet will be the employee you can depend on.
Here's one of the most effective means for detecting real applicant attributes.
Here's just some of what you'll take away from this session:
- Why people can’t walk and lie at the same time and how to leverage this fact during screening.
- How Bob’s “chat-n-fold” technique reveals three critical applicant attributes.
- How to use simple environmental characteristics to your advantage in determining an applicant’s suitability.
- How to construct cost-effective simulations that compel applicants to demonstrate their true skills and attitudes.
- How to use Bob’s “workplace two-step” to reveal five insights you won’t get from a cross-the-table interview.
- How one supermarket manager can assess whether an applicant is a match with two minutes.
- How the power of “interviewing by walking around” will shred the preparation of the best prepared applicant and get you get the real them.
- How to make the financial and legal case for out-of-the-box applicant screening when everyone else says it’s too expensive and time consuming.
What Others Are Saying
A Selection of Our Clients
“Bob, you dazzled me before you even set foot at our event. If we could clone you in every topic—conference planning would have fewer headaches.” Leigha Schatzman, Association for High Technology Distribution
“I can’t say enough about your professionalism and how you made the job of having a successful conference that much easier.” Henry P. Bergson, National Electrical Manufacturers Representatives Association
“It was obvious that a great deal of thought and work went into making sure that your presentation was custom designed to our industry, our issues, and our opportunities.” Jeannie Grigg, Society of Animal Welfare Advancement
“It was also wonderful to have a speaker who is able to combine such a wonderful balance of humor, facts and insight into one presentation.” Sandra Bushby, McLane Company
“I know a keynote speaker had the attention of the membership when I hear you quoted time after time during the remainder of the convention.” Donna R. Stollfuss, Rocky Mountain Association of Fairs
Alegent Health
American College of Healthcare Executives
Association for Manufacturing Technology
Ball Aerospace
Citigroup
Colorado Rockies Baseball Club
Construction Users Roundtable
IBM
Intel Corporation
Kaiser Permanente
KPMG LLP
McLane Company
Mechanical Contractors Association of America
Parker Hannifin
Shell Oil Company
Super 8 Motels
Westar Energy, Inc.
Western Association of Food Chains