A Behavioural Approach to Effective Hiring Decisions
Research suggests that a bad hire may cost up to twice a candidate’s annual salary. It is important to ensure you have collected and evaluated sufficient and valid information concerning the potential new-hire to ensure the right decision is being made for your school district.
In this workshop you will experience the steps involved in a comprehensive hiring process, learn how to establish selection criteria, develop effective questions, and conduct behavioural interviews and behavioural reference checks. You will understand how collecting and evaluating candidates in this way provides you with rich and valid information to make long-lasting hiring decisions.
The behavioural approach is grounded in the concept that using objective and fact-based selection criteria will increase your chance of placing the right person in the right job at the right time. The approach rests on the notion that the best predictor of future successful behavior is past successful behaviour. Behavioural-based interviews allow the interviewer to gather information about what candidates have done in the past to predict how they will act in the future.
It’s the difference between asking a hypothetical question such as:
“What would you do if you were placed in a situation where you had to make an unpopular decision?” versus asking the behavioural question: “Tell me about a time when you had to make an unpopular decision.”
That may seem like a subtle difference, but employers have found they can get a better picture of a candidate’s work style by causing them to relate to specific past experiences, rather than allowing them to respond with vague generalizations about what they would do in a perfect world.
Participants will learn:
- underlying human resources principles with respect to recruitment, short listing, and interviewing
- importance of conducting a strategic workforce plan
- ways in which your district’s strategic workforce plan can inform your recruitment and retention strategy
- how to build effective selection criteria
- successful strategies for behavioural interviewing and behavioural reference checking
- how legislative impacts the hiring process
HR staff, senior district staff, principals, vice-principals, and trustees who are involved in the interview and selection of all types of employees will benefit from attending this workshop.
Prerequisite Workshops
None.
Trainers
Ron Pound, Seconded Director of Human Resources, BCPSEA
Janet Stewart, Director, Make a Future – Careers in BC Education
Registration
Registration fees are $255 per participant. The fees include training materials,
Day 2 lunch and breakfast, and refreshment breaks.
As spaces are limited, please register early to avoid disappointment. Information on the cancellation policy is available online.
Please note that should there be insufficient enrollment to meet minimum requirements for a session, the workshop will be cancelled and registration fees will be refunded. An e-mail notification will be sent to registrants if the workshop is cancelled.
Questions
If you have any questions concerning the workshop , please contact Ron Pound, Seconded Director, Human Resources at 604.730.4519 or ronp@bcpsea.bc.ca.
For questions on logistics, please contact Silvana Sam at 604.730.4503 or silvanas@bcpsea.bc.ca.