Start date: 09 September 2026
Duration: 9th September (9:30am - 4:30pm)
Location: Dundalk - Creative Spark
Certificate: N/A
Cost: €129 per person (Non Chamber & Network Members €159)
Course code: N/A
Programme overview
Recruitment Interview Skills for Managers is a practical one-day workshop designed to help managers, supervisors and team leads conduct more effective, structured and fair interviews. The programme focuses on the key skills required to identify suitable candidates, ask appropriate questions, assess responses and manage the interview process with confidence.
This interactive workshop combines practical frameworks, discussion and skills practice to help participants apply the learning to real interview situations. Participants will explore how to prepare for interviews, structure questions, identify warning signs and consider the importance of communication, presentation and non-verbal cues when assessing candidates.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the training programme, participants will:
- Conduct interviews in a structured and professional manner
- Prepare interview questions that are appropriate, clear and valid
- Use open-ended, neutral and non-judgemental questioning techniques
- Avoid inappropriate or illegal interview questions
- Assess candidate responses more effectively
- Identify potential warning signs during the interview process
- Recognise the importance of non-verbal communication
- Maintain a conversational and professional tone during interviews
- Apply practical interview techniques in a learning environment
Who Is This Course For?
Anyone involved in hiring / interviewing people
Modules
- The role of communication in the interview process
- Preparing for an effective interview
- Structuring the interview conversation
- Wording effective interview questions
- Open-ended versus closed questions
- Neutral and non-judgemental questioning
- Avoiding jargon, clichés and unclear wording
- Understanding inappropriate and illegal questions
- Identifying warning signs during interviews
- Assessing additional information uncovered during the interview
- Non-verbal communication in interviews
- Conducting the interview with confidence
- Practical interview skills exercises
- Feedback and guidance
Applications Closing on 08/09/2026
