Recruitment and Selection

How to enhance the team through correct selection processes

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Course benefits:

The right team is a powerful tool. The combination of the right people, in the right place, at the right time and with the right attitude leads to greater effectiveness and efficiency for the team and for the organisation.

But this does not just happen by itself. The supervisor needs to know exactly what criteria to apply when recruiting and be able to execute appropriate and consistent selection procedures, all the time avoiding conflict with current employment legislation.

This course teaches best practice for conducting recruitment and selection and shows how to avoid bias in the process. It does not cover psychometric testing.

Who should attend:

This course is for supervisors, team leaders, foremen, or anyone in first-line management who has a responsibility for recruitment.

Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

What you will learn:

On successful completion of this workshop, attendees will be able to:

• Check job vacancy announcements to ensure they match the job criteria
• Plan the interview programme
• Conduct a professional interview
• Make the selection

What you will cover:

• Job vacancy announcements - determining criteria for the vacancy; ensuring announcements meet job criteria; checking the job description for currency and accuracy
• Shortlisting - pre-determined criteria; ranking against essential and desirable criteria
• Planning the programme - environment and facilities; planning the room; scheduling the interviews; writing the interview questions; selecting the interviewers
• Conducting the interview - types of question; open and closed questions, probing and knowledge-based; who does what; duties of the panel; scoring the candidate against pre-defined questions; bias and how to avoid; closing the interview
• Making the selection - reaching a conclusion; basing the conclusion on written evidence

How you will learn:

This course is conducted as an intensive workshop. Lectures and discussions are supplemented by handouts including one on current employment legislation.

Duration and availability:

One day non-residential. In-house only.

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