50% of managers say that they would not hire the same person again after a year of employment.
Most of the advice you find is either too generic and superficial or overly academic and not actionable. This one is different.
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Hiring is a business decision. Thinking that hiring is an HR matter is like saying that revenue and profit are accounting matters. Hiring decisions are the executives' responsibility. They need to become better at making these decisions.
Tonis Arro
Co-founder Wisnio, Executive lab
The course is developed by Tonis Arro in collaboration with Estonian Business School. Tonis is an executive search professional who has created several executive search firms and helped to hire business leaders for 33 years.
It's designed to be accessible to business leaders and focuses on practical, actionable advice that will help leaders like you dramatically improve your hiring success rate.
What's inside?
01
Laying the foundation
Understand the big picture and why the hiring process matters.
Step-by-step overview of the best practice hiring process and how it works.
02
Understanding the vacancy with position analysis
Learn why position analysis is the most important step of the hiring process.
Understand how to write better role descriptions.
03
Finding quality candidates
Learn the process of how professionals find quality candidates.
Learn what to ask and how to screen candidates.
04
How to interview senior leaders
Learn how senior leader interviews differ and how to prepare for them.
Learn the questions to ask to get meaningful answers that help with the hiring decisions.
05
The importance of reference checking
Understand why reference calls are often the most important step of the hiring process.
Learn how to get meaningful insights from reference calls.
06
The hiring decision
Learn how to use data from the interview, references, and secondary sources to make better hiring decisions.
Learn how to choose between equally strong candidates.
07
Onboarding
Learn how to get new employees up to peak productivity faster.
Learn the importance of clear objectives for the first 100 days.
The course is designed to be practical, interactive, and different. It's based on video sketches showing different hiring situations like interviewing, onboarding and calling references.
Each video is augmented by a mini-lecture and reading and listening materials that go in-depth with each part of the hiring process.
*The Hiring for Executives course is a collaboration between Wisnio and Estonian Business School.
