Employee Career Development Training

Interviewee Training Workshop – 2.5 hours

What’s involved?

This workshop gives employees across all levels within your organisation an opportunity to prepare for interviews and improve their interview technique.

This is an interactive workshop where participants will get a chance to plan, construct and practice answering a range of competency questions and traditional interview questions including Tell Me About Yourself and What can you bring to this role?

The workshop can be tailored to help staff prepare to interview for a specific role/competition or it can be for staff across a number of different functions and levels who wish to improve their interview performance

During the workshop participants will:

• Learn what is involved in a competency based interview and why they are used.
• Identify how past individual experience can be used to construct strong answers to competency based questions.
• Gain in-workshop practice of how to structure, prepare and deliver answers to competency questions.
• Learn how to approach and answer the typical open interview questions, e.g.” Tell me About Yourself” “Talk me Through your CV” and  “Why have you applied for this role?”
• Gain an insight into how interviewers mark and assess interview candidates
• Get practical advice and tips on how to reduce nerves, make a strong first impression and perform at your best

Presentation Training – 3 hours

What’s involved?

Presenting with confidence and clarity to an audience, whether it’s to one person, an interview panel or a conference of 1,000 is a key skill required as you progress through your career. Our Stand Up and Talk workshop shows you how to connect with impact with your audience when planning and delivering your presentation.  Each participant will deliver a short presentation to the group during the training.

During this workshop participants will learn how to:

• Plan your message using a clear framework – what do you want to tell them?
• Create a strong first impression – how are they formed and how to ensure yours is a positive one.
• Manage nerves and avoid blanking – techniques to help you perform at your best.
• Practice your presentation in a realistic way that simulates the “real thing”
• Present not Read. Focus on the fact that you are presenting, not reading from a script, using notes and cue cards
• Design a slidedeck that makes an impact – less is more and letting images deliver the message for you
• Use other ways to share your message – eg – whiteboard, flipchart, visualiser, handouts
• Use your voice: projection, intonation, emphasis and pacing
• Plan ahead and do a pre-mortem for what MIGHT go wrong with the technology