Recruitment and Selection

Recruitment and Selection

In a competitive market, ongoing growth and success are dependent upon attracting, selecting and retaining the best people for your organisation. Finding the right person for the job requires time, effort and planning. This program focuses on how to specify position descriptions and candidate requirements. Interviewing and questioning techniques will also be explored as well as the use of recruitment agencies.

Learning outcomes

Analyse human resource requirements in accordance with organisational plans.
Analyse relevant legislative requirements pertaining to recruitment and selection processes.
Identify appropriate organisational consultative recruitment processes.
Increase efficiency and cost effectiveness in evaluating candidates.
Identify methods that are performance based in making selection decisions.
Apply effective interviewing skills, questioning techniques and feedback mechanisms.
Implement induction programs for new staff.

Course content

Preparation for recruitment and selection.
Legislation pertaining to recruitment and selection processes.
Best practice EEO recruitment and selection.
Specifying position and candidate requirements.
Attracting candidates and advertising.
Web based recruitment.
Conducting the recruitment and selection.
Interviewing techniques.
Types of questions and questioning techniques.
Questioning and listening skills.
Evaluation and assessment of applicants.
Job related testing.
Reference testing and checking.
Decision making and concluding the process.
Providing feedback to applicants.
Developing effective induction systems.

In a competitive market, ongoing growth and success are dependent upon attracting, selecting and retaining the best people for your organisation.

Finding the right person for the job requires time, effort and planning. This program focuses on how to specify position descriptions and candidate requirements. Interviewing and questioning techniques will also be explored as well as the use of recruitment agencies.

Content
Preparation for recruitment and selection
Legislation pertaining to recruitment and selection processes
Best practice EEO recruitment and selection
Specifying position and candidate requirements
Attracting candidates and advertising and web based recruitment
Interviewing techniques, questioning techniques and listening skills
Evaluation and assessment of applicants and job related testing
Reference testing and checking
Decision making, concluding the process and providing feedback to applicants
Developing effective induction systems
Learning Outcomes
Analyse human resource requirements in accordance with organisational plans
Analyse legislative requirements for recruitment and selection processes
Identify appropriate organisational consultative recruitment processes
Increase efficiency and cost effectiveness in evaluating candidates
Identify methods that are performance based in making selection decisions
Apply effective interviewing skills, questioning techniques and feedback mechanisms
Implement induction programs for new staff

At the end of the course delegates will:

Understand the key processes required.
Recognise their individual role and responsibilities.
Be able to review person specifications and job descriptions.
Have considered different selection techniques.
Be able to prepare for and conduct the Interview.
Understand the importance of having a fair and equitable process.
Contents:

The Need for Effective Recruitment and Selection.
What are the alternatives?
What are the costs?
Analysing the Job Vacancy.
The Job Description.
The Person Specification.
Selection Criteria/Competency Planning.
Advertising the Vacancy.
The Shortlisting process.
Interview Preparation.
Interpersonal Skills.
Criteria Based Interviewing.
The Selection process.
Maintaining Objectivity and Fairness.
The use of selection tests.
Monitoring and Recording.
Review of appropriate Legislation.
Personal Action Planning.

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

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