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    Train hiring teams

    Even experienced hiring managers and interviewers may need to level up their hiring skills. Combating biases is a common reason to train hiring teams, but coaching them on interview questions to ask or how to build rapport with candidates are also important. Here are a few ideas to train hiring teams:

    • Instruct interviewers on how to prepare for interviews. Giving them a checklist will be helpful.
    • Encourage them to take Harvard’s Implicit Association Test to identify their hidden biases. Educating them on how biases work is also a good idea.
    • Arrange mock interviews. This will be especially useful for inexperienced interviewers.
    • Disseminate recruiting resources. Ask each hiring team member whether they’d be interested in receiving interesting articles or videos with hiring advice. Set expectations of the amount they’ll need to read, for example, send an article once a month.