Member price: £195.00 + VAT
Non-member price: £250.00 + VAT

Duration – 1 Day

Course Content

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

 Know How to Plan to Recruit

• Identify the organisation’s policies and procedures that could guide the first line in recruitment, selection and induction
• Conduct a job analysis and prepare a job description and person specification for a post within own area of responsibility

 Know How to Select the Right Person

• How to prepare for selection interviews to ensure impartiality and optimum decision making in the selecting the most suitable applicant
• Explain a recognised selection technique that could be used during interviews

Understand the Induction Process

• The importance of effective induction
• The phases of induction in the organisation
• Legal and practical aspects of health and safety should be included on the organisation’s induction process
• Methods that could be used to record an individual’s progress during induction
• Explain how an induction process could be evaluated

Unit Aims

• 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 (e.g. 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