5.7 Innovation in Recruitment: The Working Interview
What Is a Working Interview?
A working interview provides an opportunity for a potential employee to perform job tasks to showcase their abilities to a potential employer. This allows employers to evaluate a candidate's skills based on their ability to complete specific jobs or tasks.
A working interview must be carefully planned and should be one to four hours in length, depending on the number of tasks that are being assessed.How to Plan a Successful Working Interview
- The details of the working interview are fully explained to the candidate.
- Invite the candidate to an informal meet-and-greet and provide instructions on how to complete the tasks that will be requested during the interview.
- Give the candidate a tour of the site prior to the interview.
- Have a service provider accompany the candidate in order to offer support and to validate the interview process.
Why Use a Working Interview?
The working interview is a valuable innovative tool, especially when interviewing candidates with disabilities whose resumes may not fully reflect their skills and abilities.Working interviews are valuable in assessing the skill levels of all potential new employees.
How to Set Up a Successful Working Interview:
- The service provider and employer conduct a site analysis to review the work requirements.
- The service provider matches tasks with the potential employee with a disability.
- The service provider ensures that any required accommodations are available before the working interview takes place.
- Staff are informed and asked to be onsite to help the candidate during the working interview, just as regular employees help one another.
- The service provider brings an unpaid work experience agreement that provides proper insurance coverage during the working interview.
- The employer schedules a meeting with staff following the working interview to gather additional feedback.
Sources
1 In collaboration with Open Door Group, BC
Disclaimer:
Hire for Talent has made every effort to use the most respectful words possible while writing these materials. We realize, however, that the most appropriate terminology may change over time. We developed these materials with the intent to respect the dignity and inherent rights of all individual.
Hire for Talent has made every effort to use the most respectful words possible while writing these materials. We realize, however, that the most appropriate terminology may change over time. We developed these materials with the intent to respect the dignity and inherent rights of all individual.
This tool was developed in collaboration with
National Working Group
