Strategic Recruitment and Selection

Successful organisations all have one thing in common. They are all able to attract and retain the best people.

If you are responsible for recruitment and selection, your company depends on you to find, attract and successfully employ the best candidates for each job in a timely and efficient way.

The course covers everything needed to attract the right candidates from assessing company needs and formulating strategy through to selection and hiring including:

• Forecasting the demand/supply of Human Resources for your organisation
• Setting your recruitment strategy
• The recruitment horizon: Looking at the options
• Building competency models
• The ABC's of job descriptions and specifications
• Job advertisements that promote you as an employer of choice and attract the right candidates
• Using recruitment consultants and agencies and other recruitment sources
• Assessing job applications
• Interviews
• Testing: what works
• Documentation and records
• Evaluation of shortlisted candidates
• Reference checking
• Making the offer

By the end of the course delegates will have gained the knowledge and skills needed to implement effective recruitment and selection processes that contribute to the company's long term growth and success.

Objective

By the end of this interactive training programme, you will be able to:

• Ensure your recruitment and selection strategy supports your organisation's goals and needs
• Design a clear and efficient recruitment and selection process
• Support your team at each stage of your recruitment and selection process
• Methodically analyse specific jobs and develop job descriptions and specifications quickly and easily.
• Apply and use a plan for selection short listing that will dramatically save time.
• Understand what kinds of assessment and testing work best for different jobs and different organisational cultures
• Ensure that your recruitment and selection process is fair and meets all legal requirement

Course outline

Module 1 - Identifying the Organizational Needs

• Forecasting the demand/supply of Human Resources for your organisation
• Setting your recruitment strategy
• Employee classification
• Strategic staffing.
• Hiring: Think Process
• The right people in the right place
• Understanding individual and organisational Goals

Module 2 - Resourceful Recruitment

• Getting started.
• How to make recruitment an on-going process
• The recruitment horizon: Looking at the options
• Building competency models
• The ABC's of job descriptions and specifications including identification of competency requirements

Module 3 - Attracting and screening candidates

• How to attract the right people?
• Job advertisements that promote you as an employer of choice and attract the right candidates
• Using recruitment consultants and agencies
• Recruiting new graduates
• Other recruiting sources
• Online recruiting
• Setting up a system for screening
• Assessing job applications
• Reading between the lines in a resume

Module 4 - Assessment

• Interviews
• Assessment centres
• Testing: what works and what's legal
• Documentation and records

Module 5 - Selection: Making the Final Decision

• Evaluation of shortlisted candidates
• Selection methods
• Reference checking
• Making the offer