New Opportunities to Practice Your Behavior-Based Interviewing Skills Using Virtual Reality

Virtual interview

Looking to practice your interviewing skills in a fun and engaging manner? Join the next session of Practice Behavior-Based Interviewing Using Virtual Reality on Thursday, January 22. This course will help you enhance your understanding of behavior-based interviewing techniques. You will also have a chance to practice with an avatar in a virtual environment. Done right, this approach promotes consistency. It also helps interviewers understand how candidates' skills align with the job requirements.

You will learn to:

  • Apply behavior-based interviewing techniques and avoid common pitfalls

  • Evaluate your existing interview strategies and approaches 

  • Determine differences between functional and behavioral questions and how to deploy them effectively 

  • Structure your interviews for consistency and fairness

You will benefit by:

  • Practicing with a virtual reality candidate and receiving real-time coaching

  • Knowing how to structure effective interviews 

  • Gaining advanced interviewing skills, including a deeper understanding of assessing  candidate skills

  • Understanding how this model supports equity and fairness

Upcoming sessions:

This course is open to any U-M faculty or staff member involved in interviewing during a hiring process, especially hiring managers and hiring team members.