Selecting Successful People
Scheduled course outline – duration 2 days
"First rate people hire first rate people; second rate people hire third rate people"
Business Scenario It has been calculated that a wrong recruitment decision can cost a company up to twice an employee’s annual salary. Yet managers still put blind faith in ‘gut feeling’ and ‘I know when I see them…’ Good recruitment decisions are the outcome of basic skills applied with unwavering professionalism. Who should attend? All Team Leaders / Supervisors / Managers with responsibility for the selection and interviewing of staff. The purpose: To furnish managers and other recruiters with the behavioural skills and supporting legal awareness to ensure superior selection decisions. The programme includes:
- The documentation that must be completed before selection of candidates for interview can take place
- The principal elements of the Employment and Equal Opportunities Acts
- The purpose of a Job Description and its crucial role in the recruitment process
- How to identify essential and desirable recruitment criteria
- Constructing a question list that will test candidates’ suitability
- The principles of an Assessment Centre and their use in certain selection scenarios
- How to identify the key elements of a candidate’s CV
- The ‘Halo and Horns’ effect and measures that avoid it
- How to design an interview agenda
- How to develop a structured interviewing approach using four key question types
- Completing the necessary correspondence to applicants
Through group exercises and informal discussions, video and role-plays, delegates initially explore the principles of recruitment before assessing their own skills in situations which replicate the interviewing process.
