Practical Approaches to Improving Your Hiring Decisions

Hiring decisions are expensive, high stakes, and fraught with complexity. Estimates of the cost of a bad hire are somewhere between 30% to 150% of annual salary when the costs of termination, recruiting effort, reduced productivity, lost opportunity, and reputational damage are considered.

This course draws on empirical best practices and experience, with hundreds of recruitment processes, to offer practical approaches to hiring that can improve the quality of the hiring decision and the candidate’s experience of the hiring process.

The course also provides an opportunity to learn the skills needed to effectively lead and participate in hiring experienced accountants, managers, and leaders.

Topics List:

• Best Practices and Realities of Effective Hiring
• Common Biases in Candidate Assessment
• Weighted Selection Criteria: Development and Use
• Creating Experience-Based and Situational Interview Questions
• Assessing Competence, Character, Chemistry, and Skills
• Structured Decision-Making Approaches
• Resume Review and Behavioral Indicators
• Interview Question Frameworks with Consider Points
• Candidate Comparison and Scoring
• Ethical and Transparent Hiring Practices
• Reducing Risk in Hiring for Leadership and Finance Roles