Seeking Effective Interview Questions for HODs: How Can We Improve Our Process?

Hello all,

I represent a leading mineral water company, having spent 18 months in HR and recruitment. My manager wants me to give a presentation on interviewing skills to the HODs of all departments, such as sales, accounts, technical, production, and so on. Usually, we conduct the first HR round and then hand over the candidate to the respective HOD for approval and evaluation.

Can you all please suggest relevant questions to be asked by these HODs for an effective interviewing process? If you have any other ideas on how to proceed with the entire interview process, please feel free to contribute to this topic.

Regards,
Reena
reflectionz2002@yahoo.com

Dear Reena,

I am a Bangalore-based freelance soft skills trainer. I have provided training on "How to Conduct Interviews" on previous occasions and am scheduled to do so again. The duration of the training is one day.

My contact details are as follows:
E-mail: din2704@rediffmail.com

To update you on my training activities, I have attached my Training e-Brochure.

Thanks,
Dinesh V Divekar

Reena,

Can you help us in preparing training on how to conduct interviews? Can you provide us with some of your knowledge and points?

Thanks & Regards,
Wricha

Hello Wricha,

Thank you for asking me. It would be a pleasure to make an attempt to answer your query. Firstly, interviewing is a process, so you need to tell me how big your HR team is. Secondly, what industry do you belong to? You need to start with a manpower req form + job description exercise + HR interview + technical interview + behavioral interview and so on. This depends on company to company, so please help me with some basic info about your organization.

Regards,
Reena

Reena,

Thanks for replying. I have to prepare a Training Presentation on Interviewing Skills for all managers who get involved in conducting interviews in their respective departments. We are basically an Integrated Marketing Company with a total of 140 people all over India. I hope now you'll be able to give me some ideas on this.

Thanks & Regards,
Wricha.