# Recruitment, Selection and Interviewing Skills

> Hire the right people fairly: define roles, assess candidates with structured interviews and make defensible decisions.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Human Resources & Talent
- **Duration:** 3 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/human-resources/recruitment-selection-and-interviewing-skills
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=recruitment-selection-and-interviewing-skills

## Overview

A poor hire costs far more than the salary paid, and unfair processes create legal and reputational risk. This course teaches HR practitioners and line managers to run professional recruitment from job analysis to offer. Participants practise competency-based and behavioural interviewing, learn to reduce bias, and apply employment-equity and POPIA requirements, with role-played interviews and scoring.

## Who should attend

- HR practitioners and recruiters
- Line managers who sit on interview panels
- Talent acquisition specialists
- Public-sector selection committee members

## Learning outcomes

- Define roles and selection criteria from a job analysis
- Attract and shortlist candidates fairly and efficiently
- Conduct structured, competency-based interviews
- Reduce bias and meet employment-equity and POPIA requirements
- Make and document defensible appointment decisions

## Course outline

### Module 1: Planning the hire

- Job analysis and person specifications
- Competency frameworks
- Sourcing channels and employer branding
- Shortlisting criteria

### Module 2: Assessing candidates

- Structured and behavioural interviews
- Writing interview questions
- Assessments and work samples
- Interview role-plays and scoring

### Module 3: Deciding fairly

- Unconscious bias
- Employment Equity Act and POPIA
- Reference and qualification checks
- Offers and onboarding