Personnel and development managers and recruitment specialists who need to understand the competency-based approach and incorporate it into their selection methods.

Organisations need to attract and select the most competent and promising individuals. Competence is all about being able to do a job well, and showing potential to grow and develop within the business. Organisations which have developed competency frameworks need to make the most of their use in recruitment. Competency-based recruitment means changing the way we
think about recruitment and possibly using different selection tools.

This course focuses on how to express competency requirements, attract people who meet those requirements and then select the candidates who are the most competent or have the potential to be so.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• assess the advantages and limitations of a competency-based approach to recruitment
• structure and present an argument to persuade reluctant others to adopt a competency-based approach
• define competency requirements in a way that can be used in recruitment
• design an interview framework based on competencies
• search for, recognise and judge evidence of competence in an interview
• structure an assessment centre based on competence.