COM 07 : BEING INTERVIEWED AND JOB INTERVIEWING
Duration: 5 DAYS
COST: Kshs. 30,000
Dates:
COURSE ABSTRACT:
As the workplace becomes more complex due to the unclear job demands, human rights, and cultural plurality, many wonder how to respond. Not any response will work: communication skills are needed to solve a lot of such problems. The course brings together those who want to learn how to write communicative CVs and those to interpret them to fill up vacancies. From one perspective, there is the question of how best to present skills; from the other, how best to understand the CV presentation. Again, those seeking employment or promotions, for example, fall into various categories - how to structure questions for each category must be dealt with. Asking and answering these questions can become less baffling after this course. In this way, communication helps solve the problem of how to place manpower effectively in the positions available in organisations.
COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Theories of communication and their relevance in the job market
2. The systems approach to understanding communication about jobs
3. The interview as a communication system in organisations
4. Sample CV varieties, CV formats, and covering letters
5. Using CVS to make contacts with persons, companies, and employment agencies
6. The interviewer respondent relationship and rapport
7. Answering questions effectively
8. Dealing with complicated and difficult questions
9. Constructing questions, interpreting responses, structuring interviews
10. Interviews in research-related contexts
11. Interviewing children, adolescents, the aged
12. Dealing with cross-cultural interviews, difficult cases, and situations of stress
13. Special Topics
TARGET AUDIENCE:
* Managers
* Job recruitment agencies
* Job seekers
* Career-changing personnel
* Human Resource Managers (HROs)
* Public Relations Officers (PROs)
* Manpower planners
* Researchers in various fields
* Career guiders and counsellors
INSTRUCTORS:
Dr. G.N. Marete University of Nairobi
