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Practical Approaches to Improving Your Hiring Decisions

Explore practical approaches to hiring based on empirical best practices and experience

Created byAnna Stuart, FCPA, FCMC, ACC
BeginnerUpdated Feb 3, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleName the best practices for hiring
  • check_circleList the realities of hiring that can get in the way, or create risks, to effective hiring processes or hiring decisions
  • check_circlePredict the most common biases in assessing candidates
  • check_circleApply 5 practices to ensure your hiring is positioned for success

About This Course

Hiring decisions are expensive, high stakes, and fraught with complexity. Estimates of the cost of a bad hire are somewhere between 30% to 150% of annual salary when the costs of termination, recruiting effort, reduced productivity, lost opportunity, and reputational damage are considered.

This course draws on empirical best practices and experience, with hundreds of recruitment processes, to offer practical approaches to hiring that can improve the quality of the hiring decision and the candidate’s experience of the hiring process.

The course also provides an opportunity to learn the skills needed to effectively lead and participate in hiring experienced accountants, managers, and leaders.


Topics List:
  • Best Practices and Realities of Effective Hiring
  • Common Biases in Candidate Assessment
  • Weighted Selection Criteria: Development and Use
  • Creating Experience-Based and Situational Interview Questions
  • Assessing Competence, Character, Chemistry, and Skills
  • Structured Decision-Making Approaches
  • Resume Review and Behavioral Indicators
  • Interview Question Frameworks with Consider Points
  • Candidate Comparison and Scoring
  • Ethical and Transparent Hiring Practices
  • Reducing Risk in Hiring for Leadership and Finance Roles

Course Content

2 activities • 6 videos • duration: 1h 5m

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Section 16 videos • 1 quiz • 1.1 hours
  • videocamPractical Approaches to Hiring June 2023 Introduction
    Duration 2:29
  • videocamPractical Approaches to Hiring June 2023 Part 1
    Duration 18:14
  • videocamPractical Approaches to Hiring June 2023 Part 2
    Duration 7:57
  • videocamPractical Approaches to Hiring June 2023 Part 3
    Duration 10:48
  • videocamPractical Approaches to Hiring June 2023 Part 4
    Duration 10:54
  • videocamPractical Approaches to Hiring June 2023 Exercise Debrief
    Duration 14:39
  • quizQuiz 1
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Final Assessment1 quiz

Your Instructor

Anna Stuart, FCPA, FCMC, ACC

FCPA, FCMC, ACC

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With more than 25 years of experience advising and coaching organizations and leaders in complex contexts, I have established a strong reputation for helping organizations and individuals to realize their goals. I have designed, delivered and facilitated hundreds of presentations and group meetings. As co-owner of an executive search and HR consulting firm, I led and managed the firm’s growth and national expansion. I’ve been a consulting partner and principal with two large public accounting and consulting firms and have held senior finance leadership roles in the public sector and in a global not-for-profit organization. I have taught at the university undergraduate and high school continuing education levels. I am a Fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants, a Certified Executive Coach and Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, a Fellow Certified Management Consultant, and have a Master of Business Administration Degree. I am certified to interpret Gallup Clifton Strengths assessments, the Hogan Assessment, and the Management Research Group LEA Self-Assessment and LEA 360 Assessment.

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What Students Are Saying

4.7 out of 5
Student's Choice
11 reviews
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    David F.
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    Great content but it would be challenging to integrate all these concepts in a real environment (even as head of the HR function). That said, there are definitely takeaways to build on.

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