Audience.
Anyone who works within companies and in a management, position will benefit from this course on recruitment. This recruitment skills training course includes everything that is needed to instruct managers and teams on how to improve their recruitment skills.
Overview
The Recruitment & Selection Training for Managers course is designed to equip managers with the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively recruit and select top talent for their teams. The course covers various aspects of the recruitment and selection process, including job analysis, sourcing candidates, screening resumes, conducting interviews, and making hiring decisions. Participants learn about best practices in writing job descriptions, creating recruitment strategies, and utilizing various recruitment channels. They also explore techniques for assessing candidate qualifications, skills, and cultural fit during the selection process. Additionally, the course may cover legal and ethical considerations in recruitment and selection, including equal employment opportunity laws and avoiding bias. Through practical exercises and case studies, managers practice applying recruitment and selection techniques to identify and hire the best candidates for their teams. Ultimately, the course aims to empower managers with the tools and confidence to build high-performing teams through effective recruitment and selection practices.
Topics Covered
- Introduction/ Six biases during selection.
• Expectancy.
• Primacy.
• Information seeking.
• Contrast or quota.
• Horns/Halo effects.
• Stereotyping. - The Four Outcomes Of The Selection DecisionThe possible outcomes of a selection decision.
• Accept good performers.
• Reject poor performers.
• Accept poor performers.
• Reject good performers. - The Three Main Functions Of The Recruitment And Selection ProcessThis section discusses.
• The function of a recruitment and selection process.
• The primary purpose of a recruitment and selection process.
• Deterring unsuitable candidates from applying.
• Creating a positive image of the organization. - A Simple Eight-Step Recruitment Process
• Job analysis.
• How to source candidates.
• The recruitment interview.
• Different types of interview questions.
• Identifying skills.
• Psychometric testing.
• Reference checking.
• Making an offer. - The Advantages And Disadvantages Of A Recruitment Interview
Advantages
• Quick and relatively easy to perform.
• Perceived by the candidate as a natural part of the recruitment process.
• Allows the organization to get to know a candidate.
• Enable the candidate to find out more about the organization.
Disadvantages
• Open to errors
• Challenging for the interviewer to discriminate between relevant and irrelevant information.
• Different conclusions are dependent on the type of interview conducted.
• Early impressions can negatively and inappropriately influence the interviewer’s judgment. - The Three Main Functions Of The Recruitment Interview
• The role of mutual preview.
• Assessment.
• The role of negotiation. - The Six Main Interview Questions /The main types of questions that can be used in interviews.
• Direct or closed.
• Leading.
• Topic-changing.
• Probing and developing.
• Open-ended.
• Reflecting. - How To Measure Recruitment And Selection
• Hit rate.
• Hire ratio.
• Quality of hire.
• Interview time.
• Source cost-per-hire ratios.
• Interviewing cost.
• Recruiter effectiveness.
• Source cost per hire per interview.
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
• Understand the importance of recruitment training for managers.
• Explore the outcomes of a selection decision.
• Understand the main biases that can occur during the selection process.
• Examine an effective recruitment process.
• Understand different types of interview questions.
• Understand the applications of psychometric testing within the recruitment process.
• Explore how to measure the recruitment process.
