Recruitment and Selection
Hire the right people, fairly and efficiently.
About this course
Hire the right people, fairly and efficiently. Over four days you will connect recruitment to workforce planning, analyse jobs, and write job descriptions and person specifications that attract suitable candidates through the right channels.
You will practise fair shortlisting and competency-based interviewing, compare assessment methods, and make sound, well-documented decisions. The course closes with onboarding, so that every new hire settles in quickly and stays.
What you'll learn
- Link recruitment to workforce planning and organisational needs
- Conduct job analysis and write clear job descriptions and person specifications
- Choose effective sourcing channels and attract suitable candidates
- Shortlist candidates fairly using objective criteria
- Plan and conduct competency-based interviews
- Use assessment methods and reference checks to make sound decisions
- Design an onboarding programme that helps new hires succeed
Curriculum
- Analysing current and future staffing needs
- Identifying skills gaps
- Build, buy or borrow decisions
- Recruitment budgets and approvals
- Job analysis methods
- Writing job descriptions
- Person specifications
- Defining competencies
- Internal and external sourcing
- Writing effective job advertisements
- Online and social channels
- Employer brand
- Screening criteria
- Reviewing CVs and applications
- Avoiding bias
- Communicating with candidates
- Interview structure
- Behavioural and situational questions
- Probing and listening
- Scoring and note-taking
- Panel interviews
- Work samples and practical tests
- Assessment centres
- Psychometric tools overview
- Reference and background checks
- Comparing candidates objectively
- Making and negotiating offers
- Managing rejections professionally
- Recordkeeping and confidentiality
- Pre-boarding
- Induction programmes
- Probation reviews
- Measuring recruitment effectiveness
Who it's for
HR officers, recruiters and line managers who take part in hiring.
Before you start
No formal prerequisites. Bring curiosity and a willingness to practise.
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