Facilitating Effective Hiring

Overview/Description
 The most important part of recruiting is choosing the right candidate to help your business prosper and grow. The company's recruiter is the front line to finding quality employees. Keys to facilitating effective hiring decisions include thinking through the hiring process, having a well thought-out job description, and using sound screening practices. These activities are an intrinsic part of the recruiter's job, and this course explores these areas.

Target Audience
 Human resources professionals and recruiters, business owners, hiring managers

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Before You Hire

  • recognize benefits of making good hiring decisions.
  • match examples of the costs of poor hiring decisions with corresponding loss categories.
  • match pre-hiring mistakes with corresponding examples of how to avoid them.
  • analyze the fit between an applicant's goals and a position's potential in a business scenario.

    • The Job Analysis

  • recognize the importance of having accurate job analysis.
  • identify the members of a profile team.
  • select questions to ask a profile team to determine job requirements.
  • identify questions the profile group must ask to determine job competencies.
  • analyze a business scenario to determine whether competencies for a specific job were correctly determined by the profile group.

    • Attracting and Screening Applicants

  • recognize benefits of improving strategies to attract and screen applicants.
  • analyze a job description to determine its effectiveness in a business scenario.
  • conduct an initial screening interview in a role play.
  • select examples of competency-based screening mechanisms.

    • Course Number: HR0225