Webinar Speakers

  • Jim Knight
    Jim Knight Founder/Owner, Knight Speaker

Learn specific standards and best practices to dramatically improve a manager’s specific interviewing skills when hiring potential staff-level new hires. Whether you’re an interviewing novice or an extremely competent manager, this session is guaranteed to amp up your skills in one of the weakest skill-sets in the industry. If you’re on the hunt to develop confidence and consistency in how you (or your team) interviews, come check out what all the noise is about.

Jim Knight, Managing Partner of PeopleForward, will act as a thought-starter for the session and facilitate proven techniques garnered from working with rock star brands in the industry, known for hiring “right fit” employees. He will use the visceral backdrop of well-known companies, including Hard Rock International, via his 21-year run with that brand as the head of Training & Development, as a platform to discuss detailed techniques to positively transform a person’s competencies…ensuring that great hiring decisions are made for the brand.

Key concepts will include:

  • Setting the Stage
  • Effective Interviewing Collateral
  • Hiring “Rock Stars” (not Lip-Synchers)
  • Application Best Practices
  • 4 Areas of an Interview
  • Steps to an Effective Interview
  • The Turn-Off Statement
  • Putting it into Practice