Recruitment and Selection
This training course will introduce you to new skills that will help increase your performance and the support you offer your team, department and manager.
Effective recruitment and selection practices drive all successful organizations.
- Introduction, icebreaker, objectives and setting expectations
- Importance of Effective Recruitment and Selection Methods
- Cost of poor recruitment decisions
- Role of HR Managers and Recruiters
- Selection methods and their validity
- Positioning and benefits of using a structured screening criteria and process
- Rotating flipchart exercise, short presentation and group discussion
- Types and Process of Recruitment
- Different types of Recruitments
- Structure of a Mass Hiring
- Structure of Executive Recruitment
- Attracting Applicants and Initial Screening
- Tools for Approaching Mass Candidates
- Initial Screening Using objectives derived from Job Role
- Focusing on Subjective factors and biasness in Short listing
- Using your selection criteria for screening applicants
- Group discussion and ‘screening applications’ exercise using Job applications for a pre-selected job role (if using internal or external candidates, this exercise would act as preparation for the interview practice sessions)
- Using Check Lists for Short Listing
- How to construct Check List
- Improving Check Lists
- Using Job role for constructing Check list
- Types of Check Lists
- Checking Validity of Checklists
- Checking Reliability of Checklists
- Demonstration with group learning review, small group exercise and feedback
- Using effective questions
- Types of questions
- Use of Open-ended and close ended questions
- Recognizing questions to avoid and why (awareness of Employment legislation and the ‘horns and halo’ effect)
- Group discussion, trainer presentation, questioning exercise in pairs or trios
- Selection Interview
- Types of Interviews
- Structured Interviews
- Unstructured Interviews
- Biasness & Interviews
- Integrating Checklists with Structured Interviews
- Preparing for the selection interview
- Briefing and interview preparation
- Conducting a selection interview
- Practicing skills of interviewer, note taker and observer
- Practice sessions with observer feedback – option to utilize internal candidates to make the practice session more ‘real life’
- Making the selection decision
- Evaluating and rating evidence
- Using a rating scale
- Recommending the next stage in the selection process
- Trainer tips presentation, short exercise in trios to rate candidate responses followed by whole group review of candidates to compare ratings (if using external candidates)
- Applying the learning and next steps
- Review of learning and action planning
- Course feedback
Here is what some of the previous participants of this program had to say:
“We learnt a lot of new techniques which will help us to implement in our organisation”
“It was brought across to us in a such a way that we have go back and implement”
Beginning of the program:
Each participant has to fill in a pre-training need form to ascertain their expectations that can be catered to by the facilitator.
At the end of the program
Each participant has to submit a Post Training Action plan for implementation and to ascertain the Return on Investment.
