Recruitment and Selection Essentials

Module 1 - Who do you need?

• Today's recruitment and job search environment
• Competency frameworks and how they support business goals and organisational culture
• Job specifications 
• Job descriptions

Module 2 - How can you attract them?

• Job advertisements that market your brand
• The primary pre-recruitment considerations
• Discover benefits and drawbacks of different recruiting sources
• Strategies to attract special interest groups: new graduates, specialists, seasonal employees, part-timers

Module 3 - Electronic Recruiting

• Strengths and weaknesses of Internet recruiting
• Reviewing cyberspace resumes
• Website considerations
• Online recruiting guidelines
• Global Internet recruitment

Module 4 - Testing

• Everything you need to know about all varieties of testing
• Who uses testing and who doesn’t?

Module 4 - Interview Preparation

• Reviewing job advertisements, specifications and descriptions
• Reviewing applications and resumes
• Screening applicants - who, how and when?
• Preparing the proper interviewing environment
• Agreeing the interview panel and their roles
• Preparing interview documentation
• Preparing questions for each stage of the interview

Module 5 -  Conducting the Interview/Assessment

• Welcoming and establishing the format
• Effective questioning techniques
• Practicing active listening
• Encouraging applicants to talk
• Providing information at the proper times
• When and how to close the interview
• Team interviewing
• Interviewing less-than-ideal applicants

Module 6 -  Documenting the Interview

• What to include and what to avoid
• Effective and ineffective documentation

Module 7 - Making the Selection

• Using a matrix to compare shortlisted candidates
• Reference checking—how to learn information when other companies won’t reveal anything
• Final selection considerations
• Communicating with sucessful and unsucessful candidates