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Recruitment and Selection

Creative Learning Solutions’ recruitment courses aim to provide participants with the skills and knowledge to confidently and effectively recruit the right staff. It is targeted at those in a position of authority, such as managers who want to gain confidence in their ability to recruit for the appropriate role, within budget, whilst at the same time promoting a professional image. The course is aimed at anyone with a recruitment responsibility and aims to improve business performance through appropriately selecting new candidates.

 

Learning Outcomes

  • Our recruitment course will enable a participant to describe the true cost of recruitment to an organisation and how employing the best candidates ensures a successful business.
  • You will be able to identify the need for recruitment in the workplace and how to devise job descriptions and specifications in order to fill the position.
  • You will learn how to draw up effective job advertisements and state the most appropriate source to advertise your job vacancies.
  • As a participant, you will look at how best to carry out a systematic interview, using effective questioning techniques.
  • You will be able to create a structured approach to interviewing and how to create a consistent recruitment process tailored to your company.

 Topics

Identifying the vacancy

  • Our recruitment courses will cover the use of job descriptions and candidate specifications when creating a vacancy for a role that needs filling.
  • You will look at attracting the right candidate, and how recruitment sources and advertising in the right places affects this.
  • You will cover writing job advertisements that effectively convey the attributes and skills needed for specific roles.
  • You will explore handling both the positive and negative response you should take when you receive applications for your vacancy.

The interview

  • Our recruitment courses will focus on how best to plan and structure the recruitment interview.
  • You will learn how to use certain question techniques that allow you to effectively assess a candidate’s ability.
  • You will look at the use of selection tests and different forms of assessment.
  • You will cover the use of a recruitment checklist when conducting interviews.
  • Your interview skills will be tested through practice role-plays and scenarios.
  • Short Listing:
  • You will cover shortlisting candidates and the appropriate screening and selection methods to use when considering the best person for a role.
  • Our recruitment courses will demonstrate how to make the job offer in an appropriate and professional manner.

Short listing

  • Shortlisting
  • Making the job offer

Duration: Our Recruitment course will last 1 day