Recruiting for the 21st Century: Strategies


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
"We'll just stick an ad in the paper and we'll fill the vacancy. Right?" You don't sound so sure--and with good reason. The old ways of recruiting are no longer up to date. With less unemployment, innovative companies and human resources professionals are turning to online recruiting and other creative techniques to locate quality talent. This course investigates those strategies, as well as tried-and-trusted methods and shows the learner how to target specific applicant types, such as executives, sales representatives and information technology professionals.

Target Audience
Business owners, managers, human resources professionals

Expected Duration (hours)
4.0

Lesson Objectives

Updating Tried-and-trusted Approaches

  • recognise benefits of updating traditional recruiting methods.
  • analyse a situation to determine if an effective means of advertising was used.
  • identify effective strategies for participating in a recruitment fair in order to attract potential employees.
  • analyse a recruiting scenario to determine if the correct choice was made to outsource recruiting.
  • identify ways to be competitive with other companies for potential employees.

    • Innovative Recruiting Methods

  • recognise benefits of using innovative recruiting methods.
  • identify methods for finding employees from within a company.
  • identify types of potential employees from outside your company that are often overlooked.
  • analyse a scenario involving use of a recruiting page to determine if it's effective for recruiting potential employees.
  • identify ways to make on-line recruiting effective.

    • Targeting Specific Types of Workers

  • recognise the importance of targeting specific types of workers.
  • deduce the success of a recruiting approach for an executive in a given situation.
  • apply methods for attracting information technology professionals in a given business scenario.
  • apply methods for recruiting sales representatives in a business scenario.

    • Course Number:
    HR8222