Recruitment and selection: finding the right person for the job

Course summary

This course is designed to help you recruit the right person for the job and build a diverse and competent workforce for your organisation.

Course outline

This in-house course is tailored to your own recruitment procedures and will enable your managers to manage recruitment in a timely and professional manner. They will develop the skills and confidence they need to recruit the right person for the job.

Over the day you will cover:

  • Brief introduction to the law around recruitment
  • Your recruitment procedures
  • Planning for recruitment
    • What is the job?
    • Job descriptions
    • Person specifications
  • Advertising
    • how to get the tone and content of the advertisement right
    • use of agencies
  • Information for candidates - the recruitment pack
  • Shortlisting methodsCVs or application forms?
    • Selection methods
      • Interviews
      • the interview process
      • developing questions around the person specification
      • how to interview to get the best out of your candidates using skilful questioning techniques
      • how to assess people's skills and expertise
    • Tests
  • Appointment
  • Contracts
  • Induction

The course combines training sessions with practical tools and hands-on practice. Video and feedback are also used to help delegates improve their interview technique.

"Very interesting, provided opportunity to assess current level of understanding and a chance to explore the issues."  KM, The Butler Trust

Who is this course for?

The course is suitable for anyone who is responsible for recruiting staff including assessing talent and conducting interviews. It is of equal benefit to those new to recruitment, and to those with some experience. The Centre works with people from all sectors including the public sector, voluntary sector, corporate sector and private sector.

Other courses to consider

There are one day courses on DIVERSITY FIRST and DIVERSITY PLANNING, and we run a course on CREATING AN EFFECTIVE INDUCTION PROGRAMME. 
The Centre also offers a wide programme of other management and communication courses, including a CERTIFICATE IN LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (University of London).

This course forms part of the Centre's diversity arm, and we offer many other diversity packages which may also be suitable for your organisation and requirements. See our diversity page for more information or contact our Diversity Director, Pam Henry on 020 7490 3030 or pam.henry@the-centre.co.uk.

Course dates

This course is run on request. This means that we will keep your details on file and once we have at least three people interested in the course we will contact you to let you know and to schedule a date. Please contact us to log your interest in this course.

Alternatively we can also run this as an in-company course. Find out more about in-company training.


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