On-Site/Virtual Classroom

Recruiting & Interviewing

Retail Recruitment and Interviewing Strategies: On-Site/Virtual Classroom Overview

A hands-on, experiential workshop designed to help managers fill their pipelines of qualified associates and manager candidates, Recruiting & Interviewing is a valuable component of your broader retail recruitment strategies. During the first half of this session, participants learn critical recruiting and interviewing skills and strategies as well as relevant laws and legal requirements. The rest of the session is spent applying what they’ve learned in three practical modules focused on a range of situations:

Building a Recruiting Network with other businesses and organizations that may be candidate sources.
Recruiting Potential Candidates a manager might meet outside the workplace.
Selecting the Best with a behavior-based interview model, practice, and feedback.

An Implementation Strategy Designed to Get Results

Lasting behavioral change doesn’t come from a one-time training event. Our on-site/virtual classroom retail Recruiting & Interviewing Series training includes easy-to-implement pre- and post-workshop tools and activities to ensure that you get the highest value from your training investments.

The Workshop
After the Session

Key Components

Candidate Profile: Developing a three-pronged profile with required/desired core knowledge (about retail industry and working in a store), skills (interpersonal and technical), and talent (innate abilities).

Recruiting & Interviewing Skills: Learning and practicing interpersonal skills for gathering information and setting the tone during interviews.

Lawful and Unlawful Inquiries: Review of federal guidelines; game-based exercises exploring appropriate vs. inappropriate questions to ask during an interview; strategies for focusing on job-related questions rather than personal evaluations; how to avoid evaluative feedback during an interview that might shape candidate responses in a particular direction.

Step-by-Step Strategies:

Interviewing: Participants learn step-by-step interview strategies and experience a live model of strategies and interviewing skills, followed by group practice with their own situations and profiles.
Recruiting: Participants explore best practices for developing a recruiting network with other businesses and key organizations. They also learn strategies and real-world examples of how to be more opportunistic about recruiting potential candidates into the pipeline.
In-Depth Interviews: Participants build a strategy for conducting in-depth interviews and learn how effective interviews should sound via live model demonstrations of sales associate and manager-level interviews. Skill practice using the group’s candidate profile follows, with feedback from peers and the master facilitator.

Ongoing Refinement and Reinforcement

Post-session forms and activities allow participants to refine their candidate profiles and reinforce use of the skills and strategies.

Pricing Information

$175 per participant

Facilitation Rate

$3,500, plus travel & expenses

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“We selected MOHR because of your focus in the retail segment and our observation of really understanding retail from a multi-unit perspective. The MOHR team has done a great job in working with us in adapting the materials to fit the uniqueness of Things Remembered while still maintaining the core principles of the program.”
Adam Boucher, SVP, Chief Operating Officer | Things Remembered Inc.
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“Why did we choose MOHR? QUALITY. MOHR gets retail. They speak the language, they understand the real-life issues, and they have instant credibility. The training programs are rigorous in design, and the examples and exercises are high quality.”
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“I absolutely loved the MOHR training, and it is very clear to me how valuable and beneficial this training will be for me and those I communicate with on a daily basis. I truly had a wow experience during training when I realized how much this will help me as I continue to take a daily effort to read and re-read and practice these steps. Another big factor was our trainer. She was amazing, and I consider myself lucky to have been a part of that training with her—what an understanding of retail and what we go through with customers and employees and how to navigate all the different aspects. Thanks again for such a wonderful opportunity to learn and grow as a manager.”
RMM Participant
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RMM Participant
“Having retail-specific examples makes the online learning more effective because it has more relevance and gives a laser focus...these examples are more easily understood and the training is more readily applied. This means more ease of building great new productive skills and habits by the trainee.”
Online "Plus" Program Participant
“Even though a lot of situations can occur in any profession, having training that is tailored specifically to retail makes the material much more relatable. Plus, for a lot of staff members, this is their first job. Managers are shaping them for their entire employment future. This makes it even more important to ensure that the staff is learning about the proper way to conduct oneself in customer-facing work environments.”
Online "Plus" Program Participant
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Marilyn Price, Vice President of Retail Operations | James Avery
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On-Site/Virtual Classroom

Recruiting & Interviewing

Retail Recruitment and Interviewing Strategies: On-Site/Virtual Classroom Overview

An Implementation Strategy Designed to Get Results

Key Components

Step-by-Step Strategies:

Ongoing Refinement and Reinforcement

Pricing Information

Looking for a detailed agenda?

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