What is a hiring manager and how can hiring techniques make the recruitment process more effective?

We continue our series of short interviews with Svetlana Bodrenkova. Svetlana Bodrenkova is an interview expert and corporate coach at EPAM Systems.

She has 15 years of experience working in the IT sector, progressing from HR through to service management and then, in 2019, establishing herself as a corporate trainer.

She has been conducting training sessions in interview techniques since 2011 when she was working in HR.  She then established and managed a corporate service, CV & Interview Support, which “trains” engineers on how to demonstrate their technical expertise to clients. Guidance is given on CV preparation and ‘rehearsals’ are conducted for candidates being interviewed for a  project or a key position

Her areas of professional expertise and current training sessions include personnel recruitment, assessment and certification, intercultural communication, and team building.

✔ What interview techniques can be used to determine whether a candidate’s personal qualities are suited to working in a company or on a specific project?

✔ Hiring mistakes – how to avoid hiring someone who is completely wrong for the company.  What kind of people shouldn’t be hired at all?

✔ Why the hiring process should be conducted by managers, and not the HR team.