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Time:
The exercises in this course agenda can be completed within 6 hours 30 minutes. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 14 hours (2 days) to deliver.
Aims:
• To consider the importance of an effective induction and training strategy.
• To help participants recognise the cost of getting recruitment wrong.
• To identify the key stages of the recruitment and selection process and the current best practice in relation to each stage.
• To identify and describe the purposes and potential uses of recruitment and selection documentation and the consequences of inappropriate/incomplete records.
• To identify ways of ensuring fair, equitable and legal decision making with the recruitment and selection process.
• To identify inappropriate actions and behaviours on the part of those involved in recruitment and selection and explore strategies for dealing with these.
• To identify key principles for drawing up legal and effective person specifications.
• To identify the purpose and key principles of effective short-listing in recruitment and selection.
• To identify potential difficulties with short-listing and ways of overcoming these.
• To provide an opportunity for participants to practise completing short-listing documentation, ensuring a fair and accurate assessment of evidence.
• To explain the difference between traditional methods of selection interviewing and behaviour-based selection interviews.
• To highlight the disadvantages of 'traditional' interview techniques.
• To highlight the advantages of structured behaviour-based interviews.
• To enable participants to understand what is needed to run an effective recruitment interview and have practised doing so.
Outcomes:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Identify the importance of an effective recruitment strategy.
• Understand the importance of an effective induction and training strategy.
• Recognise the cost of getting recruitment wrong.
• Identify the key stages of the recruitment and selection process and the current best practice in relation to each stage.
• Describe the purposes and potential uses of recruitment and selection documentation and the consequences of inappropriate/incomplete records.
• Describe ways of ensuring fair, equitable and legal decision making with the recruitment and selection process.
• Identify strategies for dealing with inappropriate actions and behaviours on the part of those involved in recruitment and selection.
• Understand the purpose of the person specification when recruiting and selecting.
• Identify key principles for drawing up legal and effective person specifications.
• Understand the purpose and key principles of effective
short-listing in recruitment and selection.
• Identify ways of overcoming potential difficulties with short-listing.
• Describe how to complete short-listing documentation to ensure a fair and accurate assessment of evidence.
• Describe the differences between traditional interview methods and behaviour-based interviews.
• Define the advantages of structured behaviour-based interviews.
• Plan and prepare a selection interview.
• Carry out a selection interview.
Group Size:
This course can be used with groups of up to 15 participants.
Useful For:
Anyone who has a part to play in recruiting staff for their organisation.
You'll Need:
• The job description, person specification and the candidate applications for the role you’d like to interview for, as well as additional room(s) for interviews/candidates.
Notes:
This is the outline for a suggested course created using a range of modules from Trainers’ Library. It shows how modules can be combined to create an effective training intervention.
The agenda provides an overview of the training event with each of the icebreakers, course modules etc. taken from Trainers’ Library highlighted in blue. You will need the trainer’s notes, handouts and any other supporting materials for all of the Trainers’ Library material included in the course outline.