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Ever had an interview that didn't go as planned? Didn't get the job, or didn't reach the intended audience? A mismanaged interview can lead to the wrong hiring choices, or send the wrong message to your clients and colleagues. Be it a job interview, media interview or interrogation style interview, at some point, all of us will be in the hot seat as we ask questions, or answer questions. Whether you are being interviewed or conducting an interview, what will you do to ensure your next interview is a success? This webinar is for individuals who want to master the interview process. Whether you are the interviewer or the interviewee, this workshop will move you forward with your interviewing skills. This workshop will guide you through a number of interview situations, show you how to make the right connection and ultimately achieve a desired outcome.

The current available talent can seem overwhelming to hiring managers, but there is a more effective way to distinguish worthy candidates than by judging their choice of font. Pre-employment assessments offer a solution to an otherwise abstract decision making process, and will save companies time and money when they hire the best candidate. Pre-employment assessments are extremely powerful tools that help organizations select and onboard individuals for open positions. Despite the utility of pre-employment assessments, some senior executives have misconceptions and often questions that they need answered before fully supporting a new process to implement pre-employment assessments in their organizations. With the cost of new hire training and company integration becoming increasingly expensive, finding the perfect candidate means more than excluding bad choices. Firms that hire individuals who match their corporate ethics, culture and business approach find those candidates have a better chance of “hitting the ground running” and have greater success and longevity in their jobs.

Armada Human Capital has been helping clients leverage Social Media in accomplishing some great results. Greg Cardenas, will guide you through the ins and outs of what has work and what hasn’t at one of EMEA’s fastest growing recruiting process outsourcing firms. Learn from our discoveries as you determine what the best path is for you and your organization to take in adding a social media recruiting channel to your arsenal of recruiting tools in winning the war on talent. You will be amazed what is happening on this side of the pond. You won’t want to miss this presentation!

Through this presentation the presenter(s) will take you from identifying the three basic acquisition methods found in every organization through developing a much more comprehensive recruiting and/ or staffing unit with a much higher ROI. Whether you’re the company talent acquisition or human resource officer, director or manger charged with acquiring and retaining the best talent or just needing to improve the company’s bottom line, this presentation is packed full of practical information designed to help any size organization become more competitive. Talent acquisition is arguably the most important human resource pillar. Mismanaged or ignored and it can become the biggest drain on the company bottom-line. Properly managed and it can provide a substantial competitive edge

Hiring assessments are powerful tools to gather skills and behavioral information on your candidates. The use of a quality hiring assessment will identify the strengths and areas of concern in candidates (before the hire), enabling you to make fair and objective hiring decisions with confidence. Assessment use also allows you to begin the performance expectation conversation starting on day one of the new hire's employment. This way both you and your new hire know what is expected, alleviating those unfortunate "surprises" of a not good hire and allowing your new employee the opportunity to improve themselves professionally while employed by you.

How is the quality of hire improved through using video recruitment software? The right application of video has yet to be found, and we'll guide you through best practises in using video recruitment to improve quality of hire. The combination of situational judgement problems and video have been very successfull in recruitment. This presentation will dive deeper into the 4 generations of tools, the use of body language in your evaluation, a practical usercase by a large, well-known supermarket chain in the USA & Canada and what the effect, and side-effect, has been on the quality of hire for this company. Also we'll discuss how this will work in different industries, with a surplus or a scarcity of labor.

Comprehensive, Personalized Candidate Screening Is the Key to Successful Hiring With the cost of new hire training and company integration becoming increasingly expensive, finding the perfect candidate means more than excluding bad choices. Firms that hire individuals who match their corporate ethics, culture and business approach find those candidates have a better chance of “hitting the ground running” and have greater success and longevity in their jobs. To accomplish these goals, many HR departments turn to third-party screening firms. However, not all have the depth of expertise and experience this approach requires, especially when it comes to getting past the wall of silence interviewers often find when reference checking. This presentation will detail tips for selecting a third-party screening firm that can successfully probe for detail-level information and then analyze and report on that data effectively and objectively. Speaker Will Barada’s discussion will include tips for: 1. Evaluating questionnaires used by the firm. 2. Determining how successfully reference interviews are conducted, including whether the screening firm seeks out additional references more willing to open up. 3. Exploring whether they use specially trained professionals that put references at ease and encourage them to provide detailed, relevant information. 4. Examining how extracted data will be analyzed and provided in reports and determining whether it provides sufficient information for the company’s needs.

Are you or your recruiting staff still practicing full-life-cycle methodology? Did you know there is a better way to source talent and manage the recruiting process which the emerging world is leading the way? If you are interested in better, faster, cheaper ways of winning the talent war by having a competitive advantage over your competition – you won’t want to miss this presentation. “Linear Recruiting Methodology” is the future of recruiting and it is spreading fast…yet most developed countries have never heard of it. If you are also wondering how you can utilize social media to aid in your sourcing efforts without paying your recruiters to add friends, follow contacts, or post messages on walls online – be sure to join us.

Jac Fitz-enz and other thought leaders in the HR community have long been advocates of HR metrics – challenging us to measure our results and our efficiency. Now they are challenging us again, to bring our game to the next level by tracking and reporting our contribution to the organizational bottom line. In order to do so, we need to first step back and consider the cause and effect; to understand leading indicators (the things we must get right in order to achieve the outcomes we are accountable to achieve) and trailing indicators. In this workshop, we will uncover and explore the leading indicators over which HR has the greatest control. They are the factors that have the greatest influence over employee engagement and turnover, productivity in the workplace, customer satisfaction, and even the company’s financial performance. Once these leading indicators are exposed, we will offer three simple strategies that will help you and your team to put them to work in your organization right away.

Africa is the new kid on the “RPO” block when it comes to new locations from which service delivery can be located. Unlike India, China and the Philippines, a few African countries already have better infrastructure, language capability, and lower labor costs. Nineteen of the top 25 poorest countries in the world are located in the African continent. It was only a matter of time before the influence of globalization gave promise to developing countries. Now Africa is poised to turn the Recruitment Process Outsourcing industry among others, upside down from the bottom up. The benefits to the industry and customers of RPO will enormous.