Course Objectives
- Identify the importance of a talent acquisition strategy and where it fits into the overall HR and business strategies
- Recognize the importance and need for workforce planning
- Appreciate the importance of organizational culture and its impact on talent acquisition
- Develop and implement a talent acquisition strategy
- Identify the qualities and characteristics of individuals most likely to succeed in your organization
- Develop the key skills that will make you an Employer of Choice (EoC) and win the war for talent
- Identify and verify that the candidates have the right competencies
- Increase the likelihood of higher job satisfaction and reduce turnover rates by making sure you hire the right employee for the job
- Discover how to achieve the best value for money through adopting precise selection measures, and careful placement procedures
- Explore and implement current industry best practice in recruitment, selection, and hiring
Course Outlines
Day 1
Recruitment Planning
- Adopting a “talent culture”
- Aligning our people requirements to business strategy
- The importance of creating a recruitment plan
- Recruitment and becoming an Employer of Choice
- Utilizing employee branding
- The recruitment process and the role of HR and managers
- Job descriptions, job analysis, and establishing the package
- Workforce planning
Day 2
Sourcing & Attracting
- The rules of attraction
- Effective advertising
- Use of online recruitment and developing an online recruitment strategy
- Utilizing your company website and social media channels in recruitment and branding
- Social media
- Using LinkedIn
- Effective headhunting and search agencies.
- Working with recruiters
- Sourcing from alternatives
Day 3
Selection
- Understanding the selection process
- Selection tools
- The interview process
- Other assessment techniques
- Competency-based interviewing and psychometric testing
- Interview structure
- Recruitment interview techniques and exercises
- Preparing for the interview
- Conducting the interview
- Meeting the applicant
- Guidelines on asking difficult questions
- Sharing information with the candidate
- Ending the interview professionally
- Using psychometric tests
- Conducting background checks for final candidates
- Completing the recruitment process, references, employment contracts, administration, etc.
Day 4
Hiring & On-boarding
- Managing the offer process
- The hiring mistakes
- Moving from induction to ‘onboarding’
- How to make an impact on your new employees
- Effective management of the probation period
- Metrics
Day 5
Measuring recruitment efforts
- The main KPIs for measuring the recruitment function
- Applicant response ratios
- Qualified application ratios
- Yield rates
- Time to fill and time to join
- Offer acceptance ratio
