Recruitment and Selection

This is a 2 day course

1. See bottom of page for scheduled course dates.

2. If you have 4 or more delegates we can schedule a course for you, or run it in-house. Please contact us online or call us on 0115 9849940 for more details.

Who will benefit: Anyone with responsibility for recruiting and selecting employees internally or externally for their organisation.

Objectives: By the end of the course participants will be able to:

  • State the key pieces of legislation impacting on the recruitment and selection
  • Prepare a relevant job and personnel specification for a vacancy
  • Design an effective job advertisement
  • Identify best practices and protocols in responding to, and short-listing, applicants
  • Prepare effectively for a recruitment interview
  • Carry out an objective and professional recruitment interview
  • Make an objective and balanced recruitment decision
  • Complete the recruitment process to best practice standards

Module One – Impacting legislation

  • Discrimination
  • Contract of Employment
  • Working time Directive
  • Data Protection

Module Two – The recruitment process/defining the requirements

  • The generic overview
  • Defining the requirement
  • Job assessment
  • Job descriptions
  • Job profiling

Module Three - Advertising the job

  • Use of recruitment agencies and specialists
  • Designing the advertisement
  • Placing the advertisement

Module Four - Responding to applications and short-listing

  • Acknowledging applications and sending holding letters
  • Reading and matching CVs/letters/application forms to the job specification
  • Planning the interview schedule
  • Preparing and sending interviewee packs
  • Preparing and sending rejection letters

Module Five - Preparing to Interview

  • Organising logistics
  • Use of tests and psychometrics
  • Preparing generic/first and second generation questions
  • Use of single or panel interviews

Module Six - The Interview

  • Greeting the candidate
  • Administrating tests and psychometrics
  • Questioning techniques
  • Active listening
  • Body Language – theirs and yours
  • Assessing the candidate
  • Closing the Interview

Module Seven - The Selection Decision

  • Objective selection making
  • Taking up references
  • Making the job offer
  • Sending rejection letters
  • Providing feedback

Module Eight - Theory into Practice


Scheduled Courses:

This course is not currently scheduled. Please contact us for further details.



For further details contact our sales team:
Telephone: 0115 984 9940
Fax: 0115 921 5352
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