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Workshop: Interviewing Skills for Technical People

Workshop Objective: How do you separate the talkers from the doers? This workshop prepares technical people (including technical contributors and managers) to prepare for an interview by developing questions for a phone screen or an in-person interview, and participate on an interview team to evaluate and hire candidates. This workshop prepares people who may have only been on one side of the interview as a candidate to effectively participate on an interviewing team and effectively evaluate candidates.

Workshop Overview: This workshop walks you through a systematic approach to asking interview questions. We’ll discuss and practice developing and using phone screen questions to find candidates you want to interview; how to plan the in-person interview; how to ask questions in an in-person interview, and how to provide feedback to the hiring manager.

This workshop is based on Johanna’s book, Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People. Each participant will receive a copy of the book as part of the workshop.

Target Audience: Technical staff, including team leads, developers, testers, engineers, writers, and support staff.

Prerequisites: None.

Workshop Duration: 1 day

Workshop Outline

2. Introduction
3. Develop interview skills
   1. Discuss types of questions
   2. Legal questions
   3. Develop questions
   4. Phone screen activity
   5. In-person interview activity
4. Apply interviewing skills to the candidate
   1. How to read a resume
   2. Example and practice for how to apply question development skills to a particular resume
5. Develop auditions
   1. What an audition is
   2. How to develop auditions
   3. Activity: practice developing auditions
6. Plan and perform the interview
   1. Plan the interview
   2. Practice interview questions with coaching
7. After the interview
   1. How to provide feedback to the hiring manager
   2. Techniques to clarify your feedback
8. Wrap-up and feedback

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