Optimized Interview: For Hiring Managers & Recruiters (Udemy.com)

A practical step-by-step interviewing guide to help you hire the best candidates every time

Created by: Ryan Lecour

Produced in 2018

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What you will learn

  • Build structured testing into your interviews.
  • Identify good candidates with objective evaluation & assessment.
  • Uncover potential 'red flags' and the 'real story' from candidates.
  • Create highly targeted and effective interview questions.
  • Address compensation to setup favorable negotiations.
  • Plan the interview and build a kit for all stakeholders to use.
  • Make the best use of 'sync meetings' for requirement gathering.

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Overall Score : 92 / 100

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Course Description

Are you struggling with turnover and a track record of unsuccessful hires? Are your interviews failing to produce enough reliable information to pick consistent winners? Are you missing out on the best candidates, often losing them to the competition?
Whether youre a seasoned HR professional or an entry-level recruiter, job market insider and hiring strategist Ryan Lecour shares his refreshing blueprint to guide you through the interviewing and hiring process with a step-by-step method that secures the best fit every time.
The interview is the only window you have for observing candidates. Business-building and team-transforming decisions are based on these limited and precious hours. Many take credit for the quote a company is only as good as its people'. Truer words cannot be said. And the interview is ground zero for determining how good your company is going to be.
In this course, Ryan teaches invaluable foundations on interview planning & execution. Students will learn essential strategies for question building, test administration and candidate evaluation. Theyll also learn key tactics for achieving clarity and verification with candidate profiles, personalities and work history. The course upholds a constant respect for the crucial role the interview plays in determining the fate of companies in areas of team-building and employee selection.
Learn to hire consistent winners with proven interview techniques from a leading recruiting strategistThe following are some of the key things you will learn how to do in this course:
Cut to the heart of the truth with penetrating sequences of probing questions that reveal critical details surrounding the candidates career change historyIdentify the elements of strong and weak candidate questions and learn to evaluate how they contribute to the overall strength of the candidacyBring awareness to unconscious biases that tend to creep into the process and mitigate or eliminate their effect while restoring objectivity and sound evaluationLead the stakeholder synchronization meeting with an organized method that efficiently captures the various dimensions of the position and sets the table for the interview planEstablish preemptive compensation discussions early in the interview process and setup foundations for favorable offer negotiationsBuild an interview kit that guides the interview and ensures the best use of time for all personnel involved in the processRyan draws on nearly a decade of experience witnessing how the interview has the power and influence to make or break companies. From supplying key personnel to the offices of Apple, Google and many other Fortune 100 companies, to starting and operating his own successful HR firm, Ryan has learned that decisions on matters of hiring are difficult and almost always based on incomplete information. The interview is the key tool that hiring professionals can wield in order to bridge this gap in hopes of bringing consistent success to candidate selection. The success of a company hinges on the effectiveness of its interviewing.
Who this course is for:
Anyone involved in the hiring process.
ManagersRecruitersHuman Resources ProfessionalsThose who aspire to be any of the above.
Anyone who wants to understand the approach of the interviewer

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Instructor Details

Ryan Lecour

Ryan loves helping small and medium sized staffing firms kick butt against the 'big guys'.

He specializes in barrier-busting staffing agency acceleration and growth-hacking.

He helps recruiting firms establish inbound marketing strategies that relieve the pressure to cold call.

He helps new entrepreneurs get traction and launch their staffing & recruiting enterprises.

He helps existing entrepreneurs build-out their practice into an automated and repeatable sales engine and sellable asset.

He helps staffing & recruiting professionals establish a low-pressure natural and repeatable sales process for consistent rain-making.

In 2014, Ryan founded LyrGroup, a workforce solutions firm in Toronto that became one of Canada's fastest growing companies. The firm was acquired in 2016.

Since then, he has been travelling, consulting and creating online courses & programs.

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By Jennifer Kirby on 10/22/2020

So far, its great. Only reason not giving 5/5 is assignments only available on desktop and Im on app.

By Maribel Ellison on 10/11/2020

There were some things that I learned but for the most part I knew a lot of it. Thank you for the great knowledge.

By Srikanth Reddy C on 10/6/2020

Awesome course

By John Dubrawski on 9/22/2020

Excellent framework. Thank you!

By Marco Alfaro on 9/18/2020

Good information and techniques, just the first part is not than clear the execisise

By Vishwas Krishna on 9/15/2020

yes, its good

By Samantha Pinn on 9/6/2020

Valuable information

By Satish Narule on 9/4/2020

While talking with the candidate I can ask more questions to understand the candidate prospect.

By Thanh Tu Hoang Tran on 9/1/2020

Very basic course for interviewer

By Dmytro Bravchuk on 9/1/2020

This course was a good match with me. Thank you!

By Kevin Maufer on 8/22/2020

Yes. This is a good match for my role. Provides good insights

By Sarvadaman Mashalkar on 8/22/2020

It was good in certain parts.
The objective rating system, and unconscious bias sections can be significantly expanded
Overall, the instructor is engaging (does not out you to sleep), and seems to speak from experience
Well Done!