Management Skills Portfolio

COMPONENT B: MANAGEMENT SKILLS PORTFOLIO
COMPONENT B: MANAGEMENT SKILLS PORTFOLIO
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TASK 1: Interviewing Skills Reflection:
The interview role play was about the management and the talking of the interview of
applicants for the managerial post and me as senior manager have to interview the interviewees
and assess their quality and then hire them (Magill, et al 2018). The applicant was pretty much
well dressed in business formals and was quite attentive and well-mannered with good
behavioral and communicative skills. He was able to understand the job description and came
prepared for the interview. He also browsed through the company website and learnt about the
company and its backgrounds. He was aware of the company’s objectives and its hiring
requirements that are- managing the marketing budgets, updating the standard and specific client
and consultant presentations with the current data that is available, compiling regular competitor
analysis and also developing the high quality written communication materials like product
specific literature, articles, factsheets and press releases etc. thus analyzing all these factors I
have evaluated the interviewee and also and have assessed his qualities (Lord, 2015).
My experience as a Manager and an interviewer was pretty good. I started the session
with the applicant by greeting him in the room and giving a brief introduction about myself and
my position and then regarding the company. The candidate shared his part of introduction as
well. My priority was to start the interview but before that explaining the whole interview was
my main objective. I sarted the conversation doing a little biut research on the applicant and then
proceeded with the intyerview. The applicant equa;ly participated and hence the communication
was smooth and easy. There was gap of the position and speaking to a new person but I did some
background strudy and therefore it was for me to break the ice and understanding the approach of
the applicant. The student appeared to be attentive and did enough of eye contact which helped

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to communicate and make him understand the modules and criteria of the domain of the position
of the job (Magill, 2018).
I funneled through several topics that was on my agenda to look into and positioned the
topics and asked questions one by one in a manner that will help me analyze his potentials,
maintaining an overall control. Several questioning techniques were taken- firstly introductory
questions were asked, followed by probing, reflective and summarizing questions regarding his
personality and his career. The behavioral questions were asked so that the applicant may be
concerned rewarding the management of his behavior in the work place. Certain situational
questions were asked too to evaluate and analyze his management and leadership skills. I
definitely avoided overtly personal, discriminatory or personal intrusive and discriminatory
questions. The applicant very successfully answered all the questions appropriately, fluently
without any hesitation (Millar, 2017).
I closed the interview process by summarizing his successful participation of the
applicant in the interview process, thanking him for making time out for the interview. I made it
clear that about the following that he has to go through after interview and wished him luck for
future endeavors.

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References:
Iarussi, M.M., Tyler, J.M., Crawford, S.H. and Crawford, C.V., 2019. Outcomes of Incorporating
Motivational Interviewing into Basic Counselor Skills Training. The Journal of Counselor
Preparation and Supervision, 12(1), p.4.
Lord, S.P., Can, D., Yi, M., Marin, R., Dunn, C.W., Imel, Z.E., Georgiou, P., Narayanan, S.,
Steyvers, M. and Atkins, D.C., 2015. Advancing methods for reliably assessing motivational
interviewing fidelity using the motivational interviewing skills code. Journal of substance abuse
treatment, 49, pp.50-57.
Magill, M., Apodaca, T.R., Borsari, B., Gaume, J., Hoadley, A., Gordon, R.E., Tonigan, J.S. and
Moyers, T., 2018. A meta-analysis of motivational interviewing process: Technical, relational,
and conditional process models of change. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 86(2),
p.140.
Millar, R., Crute, V. and Hargie, O., 2017. Professional interviewing. Routledge.