Outplacement training
for staff in career transition
'Interview Techniques to Win That Job:
What are Winning Behaviours and Attitudes?
Interview techniques training is for outgoing staff who are experiencing end of a contract or project or who are accepting a redundancy.
These days it's an organisation's responsibility to equip these employees with skills and advice to take the next step in their working lives.
Facing the loss of the comfort and security of their job can be unsettling, even traumatic, especially if their role was long standing and they have a family to support and a mortgage to pay.
Important questions:
- Is their CV up to date and does it reflect the style of resumes today?
- Have they got an appropriate covering letter?
- Do they know to amend the wording depending on each role they apply for?
- What should be included, what can be left out?
- How long should it be?
- What is an employer looking for in a CV that will put them on the shortlist?
Brainpower Training works inside companies and organisations with groups of their staff, usually in a Facilitator-led one-day workshop of around 10-16 people at a time.
Program content
- What makes a winning resume?
- Questioning techniques - typical tough interview questions and how to handle
- Take a personal inventory of skills, strengths, accomplishments
- Analysing a job ad - questions to ask in interview that makes you shine
- Phone etiquette - feel confident on the phone with the person of contact
- Dress: suitable attire for interviews for various roles and levels
- Body language during interviews
- How to create rapport
- What are career-limiting phrases to avoid?
- Being proactive and kicking the procrastination habit
- Emotional resilience in a time of change
Who is this for?
- staff facing end of a project or contract
- employees facing redundancy or career transition
Find out more about our training approach
Find out more about our training approach
Understand our quality process for customising
Brainpower training has a unique way of tailoring our programs to your people and the situations they face.
1. Diagnostic Conversation TM
asking you some questions that are usually easy to answer.
There's no obligation, but if you do decide to go ahead, we can forward this info to our Facilitator as your 'brief', describing your specific learning and business-related outcomes.
This process is useful to do even before you decide which training provider tomove forward with. During this discussion you can judge if our course content matches what you are looking for and whether we are the right cultural fit for your organisation.
2. Scenarios
Once your course is confirmed, we send our 'Scenarios' email for you to forward to your people requesting them to send in short situations or dilemmas they may experience in the workplace relevant to the topic.
Alternatively, you can simply come up with 5 or 6 that are representative.
3. Pre-call
In addition, our experienced and qualified Facilitator will contact you by phone prior to the workshop to confirm logistics and what you'd like emphasised or focused on.