Recruitment Process
Recruitment Process
1. Setting the scene
- The importance of recruitment and selection and making the ‘right’ decision
- The need for evidence
2. Legal aspects of recruitment
- Overview of equal opportunity and other relevant legislation
- Recruitment law quiz
- Practical implications for managers
3. The process
- An overview of your organization’s recruitment process
- Key stages
- Assessing the vacancy
- Preparing effective job descriptions
- Identifying knowledge, skills and behaviors required
- Understanding competencies
- Preparing effective person specifications
- Advertising the vacancy
- Short-listing against your selection criteria
- Documentation
4. Selection methods
- Understanding and using different selection methods
- The interview – exploring common beliefs about interviewing
- How to ensure objectivity
5. Preparing for interview
- How to prepare for the interview
- Effective questions that search for evidence against your criteria
- Exercise: preparing competency/behavioral based behavioral questions
- Questions to avoid
- Other practical considerations
6. Interviewing techniques
- How to structure an interview
- Interviewing skills
- Looking for STAR answers
- Controlling the interview and closing the interview
- Note-taking and maintaining records
7. Interviewing skills practice
- Participants prepare for and conduct an interview in small groups
- Feedback and building on this learning
8. Evaluating candidates and making the right decision
- Objective decision-making
- Recording the decision
- Communicating the decision
- Next steps
9. Putting it into practice – investigations
- As a group, participants will prepare and conduct an investigation into an alleged incident in order to build knowledge, skill and confidence in this area.
10. And finally…
- Action planning – identifying how participants will transfer this learning into the workplace and what else they may need which will help them to do this effectively
- Review and close