Coverage: Alia Faramawi & Mahmoud Mansi
How many companies can make an inaccurate choice, hire the wrong person and this person would cause the money tons of money loss and bad reputation? How can one control the errors that could be caused in an interview? What is the most common selection criteria for Egyptian companies? Is it based on commonly best practice methods or it is based on the employers’ personal methods?
On the 10th of January Ms. Balsam Abdel Monem discussed this topic through a new round of Competency Based Interviewing Workshop in Cairo. The workshop was organized by Just HR Training Company. Ms. Balsam Abdel Monem – 10 years’ experience in HR Management and People Development – Spoke about vital topics that are fit for recruiters and interviewees, topics like: How to get the right candidate in the right place, and how to measure his or her behavior at the interview? How to conduct a competency based interview? How to set interview questions?
Ms. Balsam is also an HR Consultant at Just HR, a Freelance HR Instructor at the American Chamber of Commerce, and she is a Certified PHR, NLP Coach and she teaches HR at the AUC. By the end of the 3 days workshop the attendees were able to know the right way to handle an interview, to deal with the candidate, how to make sure that the candidate is not lying, all this was well-practiced through role plays during the workshop.
Mohanad – Training and Development Specialist at Remedia Pharmaceuticals company had his own views regarding the workshop: “I had quite good refreshments on the recruitment part and I enjoyed how the instructor led us into a lot of discussions and debates. We exchanged our experiences through the role plays and interviewing each other.”
After attending the 7 hours daily dose that started from 9 am and ended up at 5 pm, the workshop left an inspirational effect with a permanent action plan.
Karen – Human Resources Specialist at Fairmont Nile Towers: “The workshop added a lot to me. I will definitely use these tools for even more efficient recruitment.”
Ahmed – Training and Development Specialist at DP World: “This workshop highlighted to me incorrect moves I made in the past interviews I conducted. I used to do some mistakes but now I know how to change.”
The workshop hours were very relaxing. The attendees started their day with a light breakfast at 9 then a coffee break from 12 to 12:30. The lunch break was from 2:14 to 3:00. In the breaks all were socializing and talking about their work.
Just HR Training company, located in Cairo, is currently organizing highly important topics that will add a lot to the human resources field.
To check the 2016 courses please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/just.hr.middleeast/?fref=ts
In the end Ms. Balsam speaks about interviews in Egypt: “Knowing how to make a competency based interview nowadays is a need to anyone working in the human resources field. Moreover, making a competency based interview helps the human recourse department to make the most perfect selection from the conductance, to measure the high quality performance.”
