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.

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