Management of People: Talent Acquisition and Retention


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Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
Building and maintaining a skilled workforce is HR's main responsibility. HR professionals are directly involved in planning, sourcing, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, orienting, and retaining the organization's employees. This course introduces workforce planning and global job market issues. You will learn how job analysis can be used to determine organizational hiring needs. Strategies for recruiting and selecting the most suitable candidates are outlined. Finally, you'll learn about key activities for successful onboarding and retention of new hires. The content in this course is based on the Body of Competency and Knowledge (BoCK), 2015 of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). While the course helps learners to prepare for the SHRM-CP/SCP certification exams, it is equally useful for HR professionals who want to develop capabilities for improving their effectiveness in the workplace and advancing their careers.

Target Audience
This course is aimed at junior or senior-level human resource professionals, HR managers, and all individuals preparing for the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP certification examinations of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Compensation and benefits analysts, administrators, staffing managers, and recruiters will also have interest in this certification path. Courses in this curriculum are created keeping in mind certification as well as noncertification users of the content. While the curriculum helps learners to prepare for the SHRM certification exams, it is equally useful for HR professionals who want to develop capabilities for improving their effectiveness in the workplace and advancing their careers.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.7

Lesson Objectives

Management of People: Talent Acquisition and Retention

  • recognize key considerations in talent acquisition and retention
  • identify how to assess current workforce needs using supply analysis
  • recognize how to apply the SLEPT model in analyzing the global environment
  • recognize the steps in a labor market assessment
  • identify key considerations in analyzing and designing jobs
  • demonstrate your understanding of workforce planning, job analysis, and design
  • recognize the elements of an online sourcing strategy
  • identify the elements of an organizational recruitment strategy
  • recognize formulas used to measure recruitment program effectiveness
  • identify the purposes of employment branding
  • demonstrate your understanding of the processes and techniques involved in sourcing and recruiting employees
  • recognize best practices for developing selection criteria
  • identify why background checks matter
  • match each formal assessment type to a description
  • select an appropriate interview technique in a given scenario
  • demonstrate your understanding of the processes and techniques involved in assessing and selecting employees
  • recognize the elements of a job offer
  • distinguish between employee onboarding and orientation
  • identify steps HR needs to take to ensure retention of staff
  • demonstrate your understanding of the processes and techniques involved in onboarding and retaining employees
  • Course Number:
    hr_18_a01_bs_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone