Recruitment, selecting and inducting new staff in the workplace

Duration of Course - 2 Days

Unit Aims

To develop knowledge and understanding of recruitment, selection and induction as required by a practising or potential manager.

Learning Outcomes

• Know how to plan to recruit
• Know how to select the right person
• Understand the induction process

Course Outline

• Own organisational recruitment policies and procedures
• Basic legal aspects of recruitment
• Simple techniques for job analysis
• How to prepare job descriptions and person specifications
• Range of methods of advertising vacancies, internally and externally, and how to select the most appropriate for a variety of posts
• The relative merits of internal and external applications
• Use of job descriptions and person specifications to shortlist applicants
• Preparation for selection interviews to ensure impartiality and optimum decision
• Selection interviewing techniques
• Alternative methods for selecting the most suitable applicant
• The importance of effective induction
• The phases of induction (eg organisational, local team, facilities, spread over time)
• Matching of organisational and individual needs during induction
• Legal and practical aspects of health and safety to be included
• Methods to monitor and record an individual’s progress
• How to evaluate the effectiveness of the induction process