Recruiting Techniques to Reveal Transferable Skills

Recruiting Techniques to Reveal Transferable Skills

1h 14mIntermediate2022-11-18

Authors

Barbara Bruno

Barbara Bruno

Top expert in staffing and recruiting

Course details

When filling opening job requisitions, do you often feel constricted by searching a pool of candidates filtered by job title or by specific industries? Imagine how satisfying it would be to have access to a larger pool of talent, one that might not be on the radar of your competitors. In this course, Barbara Bruno shows you how to identify top candidates based on the skills they have that will transfer to the jobs you need to fill, regardless of their previous titles or professional experience. Barbara explains how to identify transferable skills, revise your job requisition, and how to modify your interviewing and hiring processes. By focusing on transferable skills, you can provide your company with a tremendous competitive advantage—one that will fill open requisitions faster, help candidates advance in their career, and improve engagement and retention.

Skills covered

Hiring and InterviewingJob SearchingCareer DevelopmentHuman ResourcesDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

  • A new way of approaching job skills

An Era of Transferable Skills

  • What are transferable skills
  • The most desirable transferable skills
  • Pros and cons of transferable skills

Create Job Requisitions

  • The intake session
  • After the intake session
  • Skills-based vs. performance-based approaches
  • Performance objectives

Interview with Transferable Skills in Mind

  • Interview techniques to reveal transferable skills
  • Questions that reveal transferable skills
  • Qualifiable and quantifiable expertise
  • Match candidates to opportunities
  • Present opportunities to candidates

Update the Hiring Process

  • Present transferable skills to your hiring authority
  • Align with performance objectives
  • Tweak the hiring and interviewing process
  • The transferable skills evaluation process
  • Benefits of hiring candidates with transferable skills

Conclusion

  • Use transferable skills to recruit the best talent
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