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Interviewing People: the art of asking the right questions
Interviewing People: the art of asking the right questions
Use the power of Linguistics to design interviews, ask the right questions, and hire the right people
Created byElizabeth Evans CIPS
Last updated 9/2025
English
What you'll learn
- Why a lot of the traditional interview questions are TERRIBLE
- What questions to ask and what to avoid
- Understanding the role you're recruiting for: using my 3 dimension approach
- How to structure an interview- who says what, when?
- What to look for in a candidate
- How to fairly compare candidates - using the Weighted Criteria Model
- The Dunning Krugger Effect
- The Similar to Me Bias
- Contextualising questions for the candidate
- Example question structures you can use
- When to use a skills test on candidates
- Understanding linguistic cues and the body language of candidates
- Spotting red flags
- FREE DOWNLOADABLE INTERVIEW QUESTION TEMPLATE
- This course counts as 1.5 Hours of CPD (Continued Professional Development)
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Course content
5 sections • 5 lectures • 1h 11m total length
Requirements
- No requirements
Description
In this course I'll explain why traditional interviews fail to hire the right people and explain what we should be doing instead.
Asking standardised questions such as 'why do you want this job?' and 'what's your biggest strength?' allows people to prepare answers. You end up hiring the people who are best at selling themselves rather than the person who's right for the job.
With some interesting background theory in linguistics and psychology, I'll dive into ways to ask smarter questions and how to have a more open and honest conversation with candidates. I'll teach you what to look for in a candidate, how to structure an interview and how to spot red-flags in candidates' responses.
This course is suitable for anyone who is hiring people into a team/ company and isn't sector specific. It's short, snappy and to the point. It's also based on years of real-life experience - no AI nonsense was used in the creation of this course.
Course Content:
Video 1- Introduction - the top 5 interview questions we need to stop asking and why
Video 2 - What to look for in a candidate
Video 3 - Assessing Skills - how to check a candidate can do what they say they can do
Video 4 - Hiring the Right Fit for the Role - how to assess a candidate's personality and willingness to work
Video 5 - Interview Structure - what to do and when, how to rate and compare candidates, and what red flags to look our for
A FREE, fully customisable interview template is provided with this course.
Who this course is for:
- Managers looking to hire for their team
- Interviewers
- Recruiters
- HR (Human Resources)
- Those new to interviewing
- Those looking to improve their interviewing skills
- Those looking to learn a different approach to interviewing
- Those interested in the psychology of interviews