Facilitating Effective Recruiting

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Overview/Description
The most important part of recruiting is choosing the right candidate to help your business prosper and grow. The company's recruiter is the front line to finding quality staff. Keys to facilitating effective recruiting decisions include thinking through the recruiting process, having a well thought-out job description, and using sound screening practices. These activities are an intrinsic part of the recruiter's job, and this course explores these areas.

Target Audience
Human resources professionals and recruiters, business owners, recruiting managers

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Before You Recruit

recognise benefits of making good recruiting decisions.

match examples of the costs of poor recruiting decisions with corresponding loss categories.

match pre-recruiting mistakes with corresponding examples of how to avoid them.

analyse the fit between an applicant's goals and a position's potential in a business scenario.

The Job Analysis

recognise the importance of having accurate job analysis.

identify the members of a profile team.

select questions to ask a profile team to determine job requirements.

identify questions the profile group must ask to determine job competencies.

analyse a business scenario to determine if competencies for a specific job were correctly determined by the profile group.

Attracting and Screening Applicants

recognise benefits of improving strategies to attract and screen applicants.

analyse a job description to determine its effectiveness in a business scenario.

conduct an initial screening interview in a role play.

select examples of competency-based screening mechanisms.

Course Number:
HR8225