St. Pete Works EDGE · Interactive In-Person Workshop
Skills-Based Hiring: Employer Interview Lab for Service-Based & Administrative Roles
This isn't a lecture. It's a hands-on lab where you'll practice building skills-based interview questions, work through realistic hiring scenarios, interact with real candidates, and evaluate responses beyond resumes and credentials.
Wednesday, December 2, 2026 · 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
St. Petersburg College Downtown Campus · In Person
Bring your current job descriptions and real hiring needs so you can apply every activity to actual open positions.
Presented by St. Pete Works EDGE and Elite Business Performance
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The Challenge
Great Candidates Are Slipping Through the Cracks
When hiring for patient services, IT help desk, customer support, scheduling, coordination, and administrative roles, it's easy to lean on degrees, credentials, and past job titles. But those filters often screen out people who already have the skills to succeed.
- Interview questions that don't reveal how someone actually works
- Inconsistent evaluations across interviewers
- A talent pool that feels too small
- Hires based on gut feel instead of job-relevant evidence
What if your interviews could uncover transferable skills and help you hire with more confidence?
Inside the Lab
Learn by Doing, Not by Listening
Two focused hours of hands-on practice. You'll walk out with tools you can use in your very next interview.
Build Better Questions
Practice writing skills-based interview questions that reveal how candidates solve problems, communicate, and serve others.
Work Real Scenarios
Tackle realistic hiring situations for service, administrative, customer-facing, and support roles.
Interact with Real Candidates
Put your questions to work in live conversations and see what skills-based interviewing uncovers.
Evaluate Consistently
Learn to assess candidate responses fairly and consistently, focusing on job-relevant and transferable skills.
Leave with a Framework
Take home practical interview questions and a candidate-evaluation framework you can adapt for future hiring.
Bring Your Real Openings
Bring current job descriptions and hiring needs so every activity applies directly to positions in your organization.
Why Attend?
Hire for Skills. Expand Your Talent Pool.
Whether you're a business owner, HR professional, recruiter, hiring manager, or supervisor, this lab gives you immediately usable tools to identify job-relevant and transferable skills, conduct more effective interviews, and make stronger hiring decisions.
You'll also learn to recognize qualified candidates who may not have traditional degrees, credentials, or job titles, opening the door to more local talent.
Bring your job descriptions. Leave with interview questions you can use tomorrow.
What You'll Take Home
- Practical, skills-based interview questions
- A candidate-evaluation framework you can adapt
- Techniques for consistent, fair assessments
- Questions refined against your own job descriptions
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Ready to Interview Smarter?
Join St. Pete employers for a hands-on lab that helps you look beyond resumes and hire for the skills that matter.
Wednesday, December 2, 2026
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. · St. Petersburg College Downtown Campus
Reserve Your SpotDon't forget your job descriptions! Presented by St. Pete Works EDGE and Elite Business Performance.
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