Workshop on Competency Based Interviewing Skills

Workshop on Competency Based Interviewing Skills

Friday, 3 December, 2010Katriya Hotel and Towers# 8 RajBhawan Road, SomajigudaHyderabad

Saturday, 11 December 2010 Hotel CAG Pride

312, Bharatiyar RoadCoimbatore

Workforce Engagement, Talent Retention, Mentoring, Succession Planning and Leadership.

He is a certified Professional in Advanced Talent Management by the Human Capital Institute and has provided services to a few Fortune 100 firms like Bank of America and Flextronics.

As a trainer, Sumeet's public workshops have featured executives from national and multinational companies like: Microsoft, Population Systems International, Sella

Synergy, Ranbaxy, IFFCO, Colgate Palmolive, Idea Cellular – Aditya Birla Group, NTPC, Strategic Outsourcing, BNP Paribas, BHEL, ESSAR, BNP Paribas, Adayana Learning, BG Group, Intel, Arch Group, Claris, Asia Motor Works, eFunds, ING Vysya

Bank, Kotak, J K Group, Leighton India, Marico India, Raymond, Reliance Industries Limited, Shapoorji Pallonji, Unimark Remedies, Wipro, Business Standard, Crompton Greaves, HPCL, Unilever, Kaplan India, Maruti Suzuki, Mawana Sugars, Oil India, Samtel, Simplex Infrastructures, Titan, Yamaha Motors, Conzerv Systems, Bajaj Auto, Hypercity Retail, UltraTech Cement, Innovaxis India, IOCL, Glenmark Pharma, Deepalaya, Transworld Group, Al Ahmadiah, Mafoi, VVF Limited, Schindler India, Waters India, Mahindra & Mahindra, etc.

Registration & Participation Fee (inclusive of Service Tax)

Per Participant Investment : Rs. 4000/-

Early bird discount Fee: Rs. 3500/- if nomination(s) received along with payment - 10 days before the date of the workshop.

(Additional 10% discount for nominations of 3 and above from the same organization)

Participation fee includes refreshments, lunch, reading material and stationery for the participants. Kindly send your nominations along with participation fee by Cheque / DD in favour of “HR Guru Associates” payable at New Delhi. The Registration Form is enclosed herewith for your necessary action.

Seats are limited and will be made available on a first-come-first served basis.

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R. Ganapathy, Programme Officer

HR Guru Associates116-D, Pocket A/2, Mayur Vihar, Phase-III, Delhi - 110 096

Tel: 011-30273841; Mobile: 09650055044; Fax: 011-22611788Email: hrguru@hrguruassociates.com; training@hrguruassociates.com

Website: www.hrguruassociates.com

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n an environment where talent is not only scarce but also indistinguishable you are only as good as the tools you use to interview candidates. Also, when competition for talent is becoming fiercer by the day, your organization Ineeds not only clear objective job criteria to screen and select candidates but also a competent and trained bunch

of interviewers who can ask the right questions and bring in great talent. This highly practice based interviewing skills program has been tailored to streamline your selection processes and interviewing approaches to meet objective and scientific assessment techniques that combine the best of rational decision making and intuitive approaches to hiring talent. Participants will not only learn how to interview effectively but also get an opportunity to receive feedback on their interviewing skills.

While there are interviewers and interviewers, what distinguishes a good interviewer from the many is his/her ability to avoid using questions that are already on their way to entering the record books simply because millions of interviewers have been asking the same questions over and over again. This one-day program is designed to help interviewers to become more conscious of such traps and make the smooth transition to planning and running an interview that will doubtless throw up good hires as well as provide an opportunity to the organization to brand itself before the many candidates it interviews.

@ At the end of the Program, participants will be able to:

@ Understand the basic Recruiting Process required to adopt Competency Based Interviewing Techniques

@ Practice Competency Based Interviewing Techniques

@ Develop a clear understanding of competency and job specific competencies

@ Generate highly job specific competency based interview questions

@ Develop a reliable, valid and defensible rating/scoring and evaluation process

@ Measure candidate and job fit on the basis of competencies

@ Reduce unwanted Interviewing Behaviors

Program Objective:

The program will cover the following topics:

@ The program will cover the following topics:

@ Getting your Interviewing Basics right

@ Advantages and Disadvantages of Conventional and Competency Based Interview Methods

@ Developing a Competency Based Interviewing Process

@ Understanding, Defining and Measuring Job Specific Competencies

@ Generating Competency Based Questions

@ Recording, Classifying and Evaluating Responses to Competency Based Interview Questions

@ Using Probing Techniques

@ Distinguishing between Right and Wrong Questions to ask in a Competency Based Interview

@ Developing a Consensus on the Candidates Interviewed

Program Content:

Training Methodology:

The program will feature participant assessments, presentations, case discussions, role plays, exercises, games and video-based discussions

Deliverables:

Participants will also receive

@ A specially designed

@ Soft copy of a

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Program Handout

Question Bank comprising over 1700 Competency Based Interviewing Questions

Competency Based Interviewing Templates

Facilitator ProfileMr. Sumeet Varghese, HR & OD Consultant

Management Consultant with expertise in areas pertaining to Organizational Development and Human Resource Management, Sumeet has been a published researcher, management faculty, trainer and consultant for over a decade Aserving a host of clients from the academic, business, government and the non-profit sector. His main practice areas

involve initiating and supporting organizational processes linked to Competency Management, Assessment & Development Centers, Leadership Development through 360 Degree Feedback, Employee Engagement Surveys, HRD Audit and setting up of basic to advanced HRD Systems covering key components like Performance Management, Training & Development and Recruitment & Onboarding.

As an independent consultant, Sumeet presently supports many reputed HR & OD Consulting entities to serve a wide variety of clients.

Earlier, Sumeet served as Senior Consultant and Associate Director at TVRLS. At TVRLS, he was actively involved in consulting and training engagements pertaining to Performance Management, 360 Degree Feedback, Competency Mapping and Assessment and Development Centres. He was also instrumental in developing courses on recruiting and leadership. He has worked on a range of consulting assignments with various TVRLS clients like SAIL, HDFC Standard Life, Cummins, Nestle India, DFID India, Sterlite – Vedanta Group, Transport Corporation of India and Clariant and even supported international assignments in locations like Singapore and Oman.

An M.Phil in English & Culture Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, Sumeet has also been a keen academic initially working as a UGC qualified lecturer in business communication processes and later as visiting faculty at several management institutes. He is widely published and has contributed several dozen articles and case studies in national and international magazines on communication and a range of human capital concerns.

For well over 2 years, he was Country Manager for the Human Capital Institute – a leading US-based HR Think-tank, eventually playing a role in piloting the Institute's foray into India. Earlier, as Senior Researcher for the same firm, he ambitiously pursued developments in diversity recruiting and talent management in American industry. He has published over a dozen white papers and worked on more than 40 position papers with the Institute on issues and challenges impacting human capital management issues globally. His rich experience in documenting and analyzing HR practices in Indian and North American organizations has helped him develop insights into a host of HCM areas impacting the entire employee life-cycle like Effective Hiring, Onboarding, Assessment, Employee Development, Talent Management, Performance Management, Workforce Planning,

REGISTRATION FORM HR Guru Guru Programme Coordinator

HR Guru Associates 116-D, Pocket A/2, Mayur Vihar, Phase III, Delhi 110 096Mobile: 9650055044 Email: hr@hrguruassociates.com

The following persons from our organization shall attend the above programme.

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A local cheque/demand draft for Rs. ………………. being delegate fee @ Rs. 4000/- per participant. (Early bird discount Fee – Rs 3500/- if nomination(s) received along with the payment - 10 days before the date of the each workshop), drawn in favour of HR Guru Associates, payable at New Delhi, is enclosed / will be sent. (with 10% discount as admissible on three or more nominations from the same organization)

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City Date/Date Venue Please (√)

Hyderabad Friday December 3, 2010

Coimbatore Saturday Hotel CAG PrideDecember 11, 2010 312, Bharatiyar Road, Coimbatore

Katriya Hotel and Towers

# 8 RajBhawan Road, SomajigudaHyderabad

Workshop on

Competency Based Interviewing Skills