COACHING
If you are interested in learning more about how our coaching experts at Search Excellence can help you stand out from the crowd at interviews, or hire more expertly, or help you find focus in your career direction/choices, please email us at  .  Please include your name, phone number (preferably both work and home), and current company (if any) in your E-mail.

Interview Training and Preparation for both Hiring Officials and Candidates

  For Interviewers, Interview Training and Preparation consists of:

  • Invaluable Coaching from an Insider – the perspective of a 22 year veteran of executive search, the President of Search Excellence.

  • Knowing the four core questions that are the key to evaluating candidates.

  • How to remain objective.

  • How to stay the “buyer”, and not oversell or cheapen the job.

  • How to easily eliminate 50% of hiring errors.

  • How to best conduct reference checks. This includes how to get the reference to give you detailed information, including the all-important normally hard-to-get negatives.

  • Creating the opportunity gap with the “stretch”.

  • How to properly use fact-finding techniques.

  • How not to lose control of the interview.

  • How to use testing to insure that all offers extended are accepted.

  • Compensation negotiating techniques.

  • Hiring Do’s and Don’ts
     

    These are interactive sessions.  Email the to set up a free 10 minute conversation and learn how we can help you hire the best, thus helping you become the best manager possible, and your company become more productive and profitable.

  For Candidates, Interview Training and Preparation consists of:

  • Invaluable Coaching from an Insider – the perspective of a 22 year veteran of executive search,  the President of Search Excellence. 

  • Learn the best answers to the most commonly asked questions, including the “dreaded” question.

  • Learn the great $64,000 closing question you can ask that will move you ahead of the others.

  • Learn great negotiating techniques.

  • Learn how to maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.

  • Learn what Interviewers look for.

  • Includes topics such as:  etiquette during interviews, how to deal with your recruiter (if one is involved) during the interview process, consensus interviews, how to respond to inappropriate questions, first and last impressions, dealing with nerves, the best questions to ask, dealing with control freaks, etc.

  • This is an interactive session. Get all your questions answered, and get the job that you want!
      

    These are interactive sessions.  Can include skills coaching on resume writing too. Email the  to set up a free 10 minute conversation and learn how we can help you jump start your career.

We can help executives, managers, and employees reach their highest goals! Our expert coaches can help you in the following areas:

Hiring

  • Hiring Overview - A Performance-based Approach to Hiring Top People

  • Overcoming Personal Biases and Stereotypes – Eliminating the Biggest Source of Errors

  • Creating Performance Profiles – The Factors that Drive On-the-Job Success

  • Using the Four-Question Interview to Accurately Predict Ability and Potential

  • It’s the Answers, Not the Questions – How to Really Get Accurate Information

  • Understanding Candidate Motivation – The Key to Great Hiring

  • Assessing Competency – How to Accurately Measure Ability to Perform the Job

  • Recruiting Secrets – Stretch Your Compensation Budget by 20% Without Paying Anymore

  • Sourcing Strategies

  • Custom Interviewing Guides

Leadership Development

Corporate Culture Design and Change

Employee Retention

Team Building and Development

Employee Development and Productivity Improvement

Career Assessment

  • One of our coaches, who has an M.A. in Clinical Psychology, is talented at helping individuals get a clearer direction and focus in their career, or help them successfully change careers.

Teaching The Art of Coaching