Hiring Considerations

Overview/Description
 Recruitment is a complex and important activity for a manager. Effective hiring requires effective preparation. The recruitment process must be fair and safe, and there is plenty of legislation to trip up the unwary manager. Getting any part of this wrong is expensive, time consuming, and damaging to the good name of the company. This course will give you a brief overview of the major employment legislation that affects recruitment. Then the course will explore the options that any manager has when faced with hiring a new employee. Hiring is an expensive process, so the course explores a cost-benefit analysis of the various hiring methods, examining in detail internal hiring and contingent workers as two particular options. Defining a job in terms of competencies and then rating them provides the foundations for effective hiring, and this course will show you how to use these methods in creating a structured interview.

Target Audience
 Managers, team leaders and human resource professionals responsible for recruiting, interviewing and hiring new employees

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Hiring Appropriately

  • recognize the benefits of hiring appropriately.
  • match the four main areas of concern in hiring legislation with appropriate examples.
  • match the four question areas of negligent hiring with appropriate examples.
  • identify an employer's responsibilities in relation to affirmative action and hiring.

    • Hiring Options

  • recognize the benefits of evaluating different hiring options.
  • match methods used to attract and hire employees with their descriptions.
  • distinguish between the advantages of recruiting internally and externally.
  • use decision guide principles to evaluate the appropriateness of a situation for contingency workers.

    • Hiring Effectively

  • recognize the benefits of hiring effectively.
  • select examples of competency statements that demonstrate application of associated principles.
  • apply the competency rating technique in a given situation.
  • identify elements of a structured interview in a given situation.

    • Course Number: HR0231