Training on Improving Candidate Experience & Minimizing Interview Bias
November 13, 2025 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PT
This is a highly interactive, hands-on workshop designed for HR leaders and internal facilitators who are responsible for raising the bar on interviewing practices across their organizations. Communicating Company Values to Improve Interviewing & Onboarding is part of the overall candidate experience. Tying values to each stage really strengthens everyone’s ability to deliver a consistent, on-brand interaction.
This program doesn’t just teach interview skills—it equips your HR team with the tools and facilitation techniques to confidently train others. Using Oak and Reeds’ improv-based approach, participants will practice structured interviewing frameworks, role-play real scenarios, and learn how to spot and reduce unconscious bias. By the end, your trainers will be able to replicate and cascade these practices throughout the organization, ensuring consistency, fairness, and a stronger candidate experience at every touchpoint.
Learning Objectives:
- Practice creating structured interview plans to drive fairness and consistency.
- Learn to identify and mitigate unconscious bias before, during, and after interviews.
- Gain tools for coaching managers and peers in delivering an equitable candidate experience.
- Build confidence facilitating interactive interview skills workshops internally.
- Strengthen active listening and debriefing techniques to promote inclusive decision-making.
Location
1820 Gateway Drive, Suite 170
San Mateo, CA 94404
Program cost starting at:
Member: $40
Non-Member: $80
Program Speaker
Dave Collins
Founder and CEO, Oak and Reeds
Dave Collins is an award-winning improviser, coach, and corporate strategist with over a decade of experience performing and coaching improv. Along with his teammates, Dave won the National Collegiate Improv Tournament, headlined shows across the country, and individually has coached hundreds of students and professionals. Dave applied his analytical and facilitation talents in his work as a workplace strategist and change management expert at AECOM Strategy Plus. As a workplace strategist, Dave worked with clients to examine the relationship between workspace and productivity, enabling people to break old habits and embrace change. Today, Dave works with his clients to find innovative ways to develop practical business skills through the use of improv training. Like Aesop's fable about the Oak and the Reeds, he believes that modern organizational cultures must incorporate basic improv tools and techniques in order to be flexible enough to survive and thrive through any storm.