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Lie to me! Conduct diversity-friendly job interviews

Minimize unconscious biases and strengthen your own resilience, self-reflection and attitude

This training is held in German.
In our complex working world, application processes are also becoming more demanding. Although various tools help with the selection of candidates, personal contact remains crucial for checking the fit. Recruiters encounter self-confident and sometimes very demanding applicants. Therefore, unprejudiced communication, a professional attitude and good preparation are essential in order to conduct these interviews successfully. In addition, you should be able to create a good atmosphere for discussion, while at the same time being aware of discrepancies and being open to diversity. Topics such as ghosting and internal staffing pressure require a high level of (digital) competence, resilience and self-reflection. This training teaches you to overcome unconscious biases, appreciate diversity and strengthen your own professionalism.

Contents

Strengthen your own resilience and professionalism in everyday recruiting!

Applicant reality - employer reality

  • Employee market.
  • Fit or push.
  • Balancing boundaries.

Difficult interview situations

  • What causes trouble?
  • What's annoying?
  • Triggers for stress triggers.

Unconscious bias

  • Function of perception and evaluation.
  • A blessing and a curse in communication.
  • Two worlds collide; applicants and interviewers.

Identify conscious and unconscious perception processes

  • Impulses meet internal perception processes.
  • Conscious and unconscious levels of perception.
  • Perceive, evaluate, assess.

Managing diversity

  • Generation X, Y, Z and gender-specific traps.
  • Typical needs, wishes and demands of these target groups.
  • Unconscious feelings and reactions to other values.

Recognize your own patterns of perception

  • Which values shape your own subjective assessment?
  • What typical assessment patterns can be derived from this?
  • Identify individual blind spots of perception.

Digital applicant situation

  • Overcoming distance.
  • New evaluation dimensions.
  • Use of various tools.

Typical errors of judgment

  • First impressions only count for half.
  • Recognize and classify bias effects in recruiting.
  • Basic attitude of trust and mistrust.

Self-reflection

  • What is typical for me? Recognize patterns.
  • What can I rely on? Strengths profile.
  • What should I develop further? Optimization profile.

Lie to me: sensitization to human nuances

  • Between the words is the "actual".
  • Understanding body language as an expression.
  • Building bridges - contact management.

Resilience for recruiters

  • Resilience dimensions.
  • Individual stress management.
  • Strategies for sovereignty.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You will receive an overview of the topic of applicant interviews in the New Work context.
  • You identify the stress triggers as a recruiter and develop strategies for dealing with them positively.
  • You will recognize and reflect on your own patterns of perception and know which errors of judgement can be derived from them.
  • You will receive concrete suggestions on how to establish the topic of "unconscious bias" in the perception of applicants.
  • You know what you should pay attention to when assessing "lie to me".
  • As a recruiter , you are able to reflect on yourself and develop your resilience.
  • You will further develop your objective view of yourself and applicants in order to meet the high demands of modern recruiting with confidence.

Methods

trainer, case studies, best-practice examples, exercises, discussion, exchange of experience, work aids, checklists, role plays

Recommended for

Specialists and managers with recruiting tasks.

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"I really enjoyed the training . Especially because we did a lot of practical exercises. The trainer used a lot of concrete examples from everyday working life, which made the whole thing very exciting and entertaining."

Franziska Brügger
Ernst Russ AG, Hamburg

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Does it fit? - Impulses for a professional job interview

Whether face-to-face or online, conducting a professional job interview is crucial for recruiting success. The key questions for companies are not just "who fits?", but increasingly "who does the company really need to take it forward?". Recruiters and managers alike are faced with a major area of tension: how can the applicant be so [...]

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Articles, interviews or whitepapers on the topic

Does it fit? - Impulses for a professional job interview

Whether face-to-face or online, conducting a professional job interview is crucial for recruiting success. The key questions for companies are not just "who fits?", but increasingly "who does the company really need to take it forward?". Recruiters and managers alike are faced with a major area of tension: how can the applicant be so [...]

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training: Crime scene applicant interviews: On the trail of unconscious errors of judgment

When people who don't know each other meet for the first time, many unconscious processes take place in our brains that determine whether we like or dislike them. What is completely normal for us in everyday life is out of place in recruiting and, in the worst case, can prevent the "right candidate" from being hired for the right job! If you don't want to rely solely on your gut feeling when deciding for or against an applicant and instead want to decide as objectively as possible in the interests of the company, this training learn how to conduct job interviews without prejudices and patterns of perception(unconscious bias). And learn a lot about your own subjective perception filters and how others perceive you.

 

Professional recruiting thanks to job training training

Job interviews are supposed to help "filter out" the best Employees for a company from a large number of applicants . All too often, however, the search for the best personnel solution fails due to errors of judgment and incorrect assessments, personal sensitivities, subjective demands and simply interpersonal issues. If you want to benefit as much as possible from discussions with new applicants , you first need a great deal of self-reflection. After all, only those who can assess their own behavior as neutrally as possible from an external perspective are able to conduct an objective job interview. participants in the "Crime Scene Applicant Interviews" seminar learn how to deal objectively with non-verbal signals and build up adequate skills in dealing with application situations. They also learn what recruiters should pay attention to.

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