Recruitment and Selection

Course Overview:
Since the economic downturn, job seeker numbers have increased. This has resulted in additional costs for businesses as they have had to assess more and more candidates. A lot of businesses have responded by inputting additional layers in their recruitment and selection process. With rumoured costs of between £7,000 & £35,000 for employing staff dependant on level, it's essential that this process is robust.

Who's it for?
Anyone with responsibility for recruiting and selecting employees internally or externally for their organisation.

What will I learn?
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


    • Pre-course activity
    As part of the investment you're making by signing up to this course, we're inviting you to complete our Paradigm FiT In psychometric. Paradigm is based on 100 years of psychological research. The Paradigm assessment reports were developed, tested, refined and validated over an extensive period. This will provide, what we believe, to be the most practical and purpose built psychometric report available in the market today.

    What will it cover?

    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.


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