Methodology

Pyarmid

The Interview Pyramid Interviewing Methodology

During a facilitation, Jason will take you through:

Checking Your Current Interview Capability Level

Are we as individuals doing a good job interviewing? What weaknesses do we see in how we interview?

Question Relevancy and Bias

Do the questions I ask have anything to do with the positions I am interviewing for? Am I unconsciously screening out candidates who could be strong fits for a role?

The Three Key Competencies and Hierarchy of Sub-Competencies

Knowledge

  • Role
  • Industry
  • Specialty

Accountability

  • Tactical
  • Strategic
  • Managerial

Communication

  • Information
  • Opinion
  • Persuasion
Defining Job Levels

What level of role am I actually recruiting for? What levels are common to our organizational hiring needs?

Correlating Sub-Competencies to Job Levels

Are we asking all the questions that we should depending on the roles we’re hiring? Are we asking too many questions and reducing our candidate pool unnecessarily?

Understanding the Relationships Between the Competencies

How do the competencies and sub-competencies affect each other? Why is it important to interview for all of them?

Assessing the Job Level of Your Openings

Is the role I’m seeking to hire as senior or as junior as I think it is?

Examining the Risks of not Asking the Right Questions

What happens if I get these questions wrong? Where do most interviewers go wrong?

Formulating Interview Questions Corresponding to Competencies

What questions should I be asking candidates at a given level for a given role?

Implementing The Interview Pyramid into Your Interview Regimen

How should I prepare for interviewing someone?

Practical Considerations: Budgets, Skill Fit and Language Capability

What do we do if our budget is too low? Do we really need someone with the skill set that we think we do?

Handling Candidate Tiebreakers

We’ve identified more than one strong candidate for a role, but can only hire one. How do we choose?

Values and Ethics in Interviews

We think this person is a good fit in terms of skills, but do they match our values and ethics?

Eliciting Difficult Information in a Comfortable Environment

A lot of interview information is sensitive in nature. How do we get someone to open up to us with the level of detail that we need?

Open Q&A Time About Recruitment

We have many questions about our recruitment processes. Could we discuss them in an open forum and get your thoughts?

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On-site or Online Training

This takes approximately one business day, where we supply workbooks and materials.

Customized Interview Question Development

We help you create a question and answer booklet for your open positions so that you can make the right hire the first time.

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Facilitation Size

A typical workshop will have between 12-16 participants, so that everyone on your team can receive the full attention of the facilitator and attending members can gain the most from this learning experience through small team exercises.

The Interview Pyramid Facilitation and Materials Will:

Provide

an easy method for companies to train their managers to focus on asking interview questions corresponding to necessary competencies for a candidate to perform a job well.

Help

companies to assess the level of candidate a company needs to hire, from entry level and semi-skilled labor, all the way to senior management roles.

Companies often discover that they are asking competency questions of candidates corresponding to a different level than they need to hire.

Proficiency in The Interview Pyramid may lead companies either to change their interview questions or change the level of the hire that they want, leading to better hiring results.

The key to good recruitment is to ask the competency-based questions suited to the level at which you are recruiting.