Course Contents

With the growing uncertain scenarios in the professional environment as well as volatile market conditions, hiring the right talent and keeping them well engaged becomes of paramount importance, given that human capital is an important asset to be invested in, and perhaps the only thing which can assure unique and differing outcomes.

In this context, there’s an umpteen need to continuously upgrade our hiring methodologies and be vested in strategies that can enable hiring the right talent as well as retaining them, thus fostering productivity and growth. Dua’s Knowledge Potli tries to embed the perfect mixture of experience as well as real-life applications to ensure sharing of the best hiring practices and at the same time work upon an individual’s thought and belief patterns to enable holistic learning.

Sharing the structure, an overview of the thematic content to be covered with timelines, along with the proposed outcome for the workshop.

Hygiene factors - How do we get prepared for the interview? - 30 min
- Being aware of the company identity, mission, vision statements, and values set the right tone for initial discussions
- Organizational branding
- Living the organizational culture
- Awareness of Job description, as well as key roles and responsibilities for the position to be interviewed, etc.
- Take time to know the candidates
Structure - What best practices to follow, in order to create a standard and structured hiring mechanism? - 45 min
- Consistent practices and methodologies for having a structured interview
- Tailored best practices as per the employee demographics as well as target group hiring
- Reasonable & Unreasonable expectation setting
- Appropriate body language and tone of discussion sets the primal context
Art of Interviewing - How to master the art of interviewing which can not only ease the process of hiring but can also take care of the psychological safety needs of candidates? - 90min
- Psychological errors while taking interviews
- Hiring biases (includes conscious & subconscious; recency & conformity biases etc.)
- Enhancing emotional intelligence quotient, to facilitate smooth execution and ensure closures on targeted hiring.
Giving & receiving Feedback - The art of giving & receiving feedback is crucial, in order to hire right - 45min
- Sharing feedback with both internal as well as external stakeholders including TA/HRBP/candidates etc.
- Setting the right expectation, which aids the tonality of discussions
Questions & Answers - Habit formation and practice exercises - 30 min

Outcome:

Enhanced efficiency metrics, wherein the specific exercises managers can practice and follow leading to increase in offer to joining ratio; shortlist to offer ratio, as well as interviewed to offer ratio.
Enhanced Client satisfaction index
Better stakeholders experience (Internal/External) by sharing specific and focused feedback
Reduced turnover rate of employees, with a focus on infant attrition
Upscale in Branding & employee value proposition
Better Integration of new joiners on all the 3 stages – Day1 engagement/Pre onboarding, Boarding and Post On- Boarding
Enhanced hiring proficiency for the team leading to time and cost saving

Instructor Profile

Sanjay Dua

Sanjay Dua is the Founder and CEO of DUA's Knowledge Potli , Life Coach and NLP Practitioner. Trainer and Facilitator catering to different behavioral and wellbeing workshops