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Picking the Right Candidate: Evidence-Based Selection

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In this course, you will learn how to define a clear hiring bar, turn success profiles into weighted competencies, run structured interviews, capture evidence instead of impressions, and make stronger hiring decisions with more fairness and consistency. You will also learn how to compare close candidates, manage hiring risks, shape roles thoughtfully, and document decisions in a way that supports onboarding and long-term success. What makes this course unique is its focus on the full selection system, not just interview tactics in isolation. Instead of treating hiring as a series of gut calls, it shows how hiring bar setting, competency design, structured questions, scorecards, bias checks, decision models, reference checks, and decision memos all work together. The approach is practical, modern, and designed for real workplace constraints. Whether you are a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR partner, this course will help you make more evidence-based decisions, improve consistency across interviewers, and choose candidates with greater confidence.

Syllabus

  • Defining the Hiring Bar & What You’re Evaluating
  • Collecting Evidence: Interviews, Exercises & Structured Notes
  • Making the Decision: Models, Synthesis & Tradeoffs
  • Role Shaping, Risk Management & Decision Handoff

Taught by

Evan Kimbrell

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