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The Hiring Manager’s Complete Guide to Interviewing and Recruitment
One-to-one coaching for hiring managers with Jeff Priestley — helping you make every recruitment decision with confidence, evidence and consistency.
Most hiring managers learned to interview by being interviewed. They carry into the room a set of instincts shaped by their own experience as candidates — what felt fair, what felt uncomfortable, what seemed to reveal something real. Those instincts are a starting point. But they are not enough.
Research consistently shows that unstructured interviews driven by gut feel are poor predictors of job performance. A poor hire is costly in time, money and team morale. A great hire can transform a team, a department, or an entire organisation.
"The single biggest predictor of a bad hire is an interviewer who trusts instinct over evidence."
Jeff Priestley has spent more than thirty years on both sides of the interview table — coaching candidates to present themselves at their very best, and training hiring managers and selection panels to find and recruit the right people. That dual perspective is rare. It is what makes this coaching so effective.
His book — Can You Imagine Them Here? The Hiring Manager's Complete Guide to Interviewing and Recruitment — and the one-to-one coaching programme built around it give hiring managers a practical, structured and legally sound approach to every stage of the process.
Every time you interview a candidate, you are asking yourself one question — whether you know it or not:
"Can I genuinely imagine this person doing this job well?"
Can you picture them working effectively with your team? Serving your customers? Solving the problems the role demands? Everything in this coaching programme — every question you design, every answer you probe, every decision you make — is in service of answering that question with confidence and evidence.
Your session lasts three hours and is built entirely around you — your role, your team, your next hire. It is personal, practical and not a generic template.
Jeff begins by understanding your current recruitment process — the challenges you face, the roles you hire for, and where the process tends to break down. Everything that follows is tailored to your specific situation.
Working through Jeff's proven hiring manager interview model, you will learn how to design questions that surface real evidence, run each of the four interview stages effectively, read candidates accurately, score objectively and counter the biases that most distort hiring decisions.
Using your own real roles and scenarios, Jeff works through the material with you in practice — designing your question bank, calibrating what a strong STAR answer looks like, and preparing you to run your next interview with genuine confidence.
The coaching covers:
Every client leaves the session with practical resources they can use immediately and return to for every future hire.
"You helped me gain my confidence again in my ability as a manager and gave me techniques for managing interviews in a professional manner "
— Jay
Can You Imagine Them Here? The Hiring Manager's Complete Guide to Interviewing and Recruitment by Jeff Priestley is available now as a Kindle e-book on Amazon.
The book covers every stage of the recruitment process:
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Jeff offers hiring manager coaching both in person and online, so wherever you are in the UK you can access the same quality of support.
Sessions are also available for HR teams and groups of hiring managers. Please contact us to discuss your organisation's requirements.
Jeff Priestley is a Chartered Member of the CIPD, an NLP Master Practitioner, and holds the British Psychological Society Certificate in Personality and Occupational Testing. He is co-founder of The ChangeKey Partnership, a management training and career development consultancy established in 1994 and based in the East Midlands.
He has over thirty years of experience operating at all levels — from front-line to senior management — across a wide range of businesses including public, private, commercial and industrial sectors. In addition to his coaching work, Jeff has tutored on Postgraduate Certificate in Management programmes at the University of Nottingham.
Jeff is the author of two books:
"We have coached literally thousands of people to present themselves at interview in a truthful yet positive light — and successfully demonstrate how they could do the job. And yes, very often winning the interview."
— Jeff Priestley, Chartered MCIPD
If you have a hire coming up — or you simply want to be ready when the right opportunity arrives — get in touch today. Sessions fill up quickly, particularly around peak recruitment periods.
Tel: +44 (0)115 784 8013
Email: info@changekey.co.uk
Web: www.changekey.co.uk
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