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Recruitment and Selection

Discover how to enhance your recruitment, selection and induction processes so that you stand a better chance of getting the right people in the right roles.

Covering a range of legal and practical aspects, this course takes you through every recruitment stage, from successfully advertising positions to informing applicants of the outcome. This is your opportunity to transform a standard human resources process into a way of improving your organisation's performance by raising the quality of the people you're asking to deliver it.

Course information

The one-day course covers key recruitment topics:

  • Organisational recruitment policies and procedures
  • Legal aspects of recruitment and selection
  • Relevant methods of advertising vacancies, internally and externally
  • Dealing with internal and external applications
  • Use of job descriptions and person specifications to shortlist applicants
  • Selection techniques including interviewing, testing, assessment centres and references
  • Alternative methods of advising applicants of outcomes
  • Maintaining comprehensive records to support and justify decisions.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the session, you'll be able to:

  • Understand and comply with organisational recruitment policies and procedures
  • Understand and comply with the legal aspects of recruitment
  • Use optimum methods to attract suitable applicants, both internal and external, for a post within your area of responsibility
  • Prepare a shortlist from applications received for a post within your area of responsibility
  • Select the most appropriate individual, following the chosen selection process
  • Inform all applicants of outcomes
  • Maintain appropriate records of all stages

Progression routes

This course is part of the CPD Management Series and other workshops include:

Completion of four of the workshops in this series and a Work-Based Learning Report leads to a ¸Û²ÊÈ«ÄêÀúʷͼ¿â Certificate in Personal and Professional Development NQF Level 4.

For further information, please email our Business Development team or call 020 8411 5050.

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