Recruitment & Interviewing Skills

The ever-increasing rate of change and digitisation has caused upheaval in the skills market and employers are now struggling to attract the right skills, talent and experience for their organisation.

Despite the challenges of recruiting in a “candidate’s market” there are a range of things employers can do to attract and retain the best talent for their organisation. A robust, best-practice recruitment process will ensure you get the right candidate first-time.

Workshop Overview

Everything from employer brand, to candidate experience, to job adverts will need to hold its own to attract strong candidates in this competitive talent economy.

In this workshop, we will explore the recruitment and selection process, and best practice for each step of the process to ensure you attract and identify the best people for your organisation.

Particular emphasis will be placed on the interviewing stage, with delegates being introduced to a best-practice Competency Based Interviewing process and having an opportunity to practice their interviewing skills.

What's Covered?

• Understand the recruitment life cycle and how it should inform your recruitment strategy
• Planning - What considerations and steps are required before starting to recruit?
• Understand the impact of Candidate Experience and learn about tools to help build your Employer Brand such as Glassdoor and LinkedIn.
• Employment Law considerations: Fair and non-discriminatory criteria and processes, necessary records and discoverable documents.
• Case studies highlighting best practice recruitment in action
• How to write a compelling and focused Role Profile; including Job Description and Person Specification
• Understand effective shortlisting and learn useful models to help with shortlisting
• Getting selection right – explore alternative selection methods such as assessment centres and psychometrics.
• How to design and carry out effective interviews that really test your core experience and competency requirements, including considerations for remote interviews

Who Should Attend?

Everybody who has responsibility for recruitment and talent strategy, including small business owners, managers and HR professionals.

Terms and Conditions:

To be eligible for a refund (minus Eventbrite's processing fee), cancellations must be made more than 7 days in advance of the workshop date. Cancellation requests can be sent to: enquiries@thinkpeople.co.uk.