Interviewing Foundations: Behavioral & Situational Techniques

This learning path includes an updated version of Interviewing Level 1, equipping you to gather meaningful evidence and evaluate candidates consistently and fairly so you can make confident, high-quality hiring decisions.

Skills covered

Interviewing

What you'll learn:

Build a strong foundation in structured, evidence-based interviewing — Understand the principles that make interviews reliable and defensible, and why structure is the cornerstone of any high-quality hiring process.
Define clear hiring criteria using the Recruiting Toolbox Framework — Use a proven framework to identify what you're actually hiring for, so every interview has a consistent, objective foundation to work from.
Apply behavioural interviewing techniques to predict future performance — Draw on candidates' past experience to assess how they're likely to perform in the role, using evidence over instinct.
Use situational interviewing to assess present capability — Test how candidates think and respond in the moment, revealing their current judgement and approach to real-world challenges.

Presenters include

John Vlastelica

SocialTalent Expert

Skills covered

Interviewing

What you'll learn:

Build a strong foundation in structured, evidence-based interviewing — Understand the principles that make interviews reliable and defensible, and why structure is the cornerstone of any high-quality hiring process.
Define clear hiring criteria using the Recruiting Toolbox Framework — Use a proven framework to identify what you're actually hiring for, so every interview has a consistent, objective foundation to work from.
Apply behavioural interviewing techniques to predict future performance — Draw on candidates' past experience to assess how they're likely to perform in the role, using evidence over instinct.
Use situational interviewing to assess present capability — Test how candidates think and respond in the moment, revealing their current judgement and approach to real-world challenges.

This Learning Path Includes 1 Mission

Develop the core interviewing skills required to evaluate candidates fairly, consistently, and with confidence. Through the Recruiting Toolbox Hiring Criteria Framework, you'll learn how to define what you're hiring for and apply behavioural and situational techniques to gather the evidence that actually predicts performance.