The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Short training courses

Content of Strategies for Recruitment and Selection

DAY 1

Attracting people to your organisation

Analysing the labour market 

  • understanding strategy and how to link recruitment strategy with business strategy
  • widening the candidate pool by targeting different groups of candidates
  • designing effective internal recruitment procedures

Marketing strategies

  • projecting your organisation
  • developing an employment brand
  • trends in recruitment advertising
  • developing a recruitment advertising strategy
  • ensuring that your procedures are candidatefriendly
  • recruitment and the Internet
  • building key relationships across the recruitment market.

DAY 2

Diversity

  • ensuring that your recruitment processes encourage diversity
  • understanding how to combat hidden and unintentional discrimination, including age discrimination

Assessing the candidate

  • HR and line managers as partners
  • drawing up a performance profile that helps candidates self-select and helps you identify the candidate who will make a distinctive contribution to your organisation
  • handling volume recruitment
  • using psychometric tests and assessment centres
  • induction, follow-up and evaluation.