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Overview
This interactive workshop guides participants through the recruitment life cycle, from defining skill profiles to making a job offer. It demonstrates how to screen resumes, how to use effective interviewing techniques and how to assess candidates. It also discusses legal constraints. The workshop develops skills in individual and team activities and provides opportunities to refine interviewing skills in role-play exercises.
Prerequisites
None
Audience
This workshop is for anyone involved in recruitment of IT (information technology) professionals. It can be customized for recruitment of other staff.
Maximum number of participants: 12
Course duration
1 Day
Classroom Requirements
Room set up as horseshoe and large enough for team activities, or with break-out rooms for team activities. Overhead projector, flipcharts.
Format
Objectives
After this course a student should be able to
- Develop job profiles for recruitment purposes
- Screen resumes, using job profiles
- Plan and prepare recruitment interviews
- Design questions for interviews
- Structure and conduct interviews
- Document the results of interviews
- Design and use an analysis matrix to rate candidates
- Recognize legal constraints in recruitment
Course outline
- Introduction
- Interview Requirements
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Identifying requirements
- Gathering and verifying information
- Results of ineffective interviews
- Improved interviewing skills
- Planning and Preparation
- Define job requirements
- Job profile/rating system
- Finalize interviewing plan
- Types of interview
- Structure and format selection
- Short-listing applicants
- Preparing to interview
- Strategy
- Framing questions
- Conducting the interview
- Interview Skills
- Using questions
- Assessing the reliability of responses
- Note-taking
- Tact and responsivity
- Telephone interviewing
- Reviewing the interview
- Following the Interview
- Reviewing and evaluating interview results
- Selecting a candidate
- Making and closing an offer
- Conclusion
