Recruitment and selection skills
Module Leader: Stuart McNicholas
Overview
To explore the strategic and operational importance of good recruitment and selection skills and policies.
To provide a chance to develop techniques and skills that will improve the ability of Publishers to attract and appoint and retain successful candidates.
Module Content
Is recruitment and selection important?
· The key issues behind good recruitment and selection.
· The consequences of getting it wrong.
The starting point The Job
- Developing a Job Description what we need to say and how detailed it needs to be.
The person you want
- Why Person specifications and how we draw them up.
- Developing generic and specific competencies for particular roles.
- The key legal issues around recruitment and selection.
How to attract the right candidates
- Developing a recruitment strategy. Using adverts, agencies and other routes.
Do we need to go outside?
- Home grown talent and succession planning.
- Developing a manageable Human Resource Plan for the area and linking with other HR policies.
Starting the Selection process
- Developing a strategy to select, looking at application forms and CVs.
- Pre selection tasks and shortlisting criteria and techniques.
To Test or not to test?
- A look at selection tests available and also work sample exercises that can be developed in house.
- Psychometric instruments, why they might help, and their limitations.
The Interview. Why we all still insist on it.
- Developing questions against the person specification and key competencies.
- How to exchange information with candidates. Remembering that they are selecting you as much as you are selecting them.
- Setting up an interview structure, who does what. Using all the data you have on candidates. More than just a “gut feeling”.
- Effective questioning techniques, behavioural interviewing.
Making your mind up
- How to assemble the data you have and make your appointment decisions.
- Use of scoring systems around key competencies.
Keeping them
- A look at what measures can be taken to ensure that successful candidates stay and achieve their promise.
- The induction processes.
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