Successful Recruitment and Selection

Description

Understand the principles of successful recruitment in this transformational one-day programme.Getting the right people in the right seats in a workplace is absolutely key to its success. But so often organisations get it wrong. How do you recruit new members of staff? Are you struggling to find and hire the best candidates?At Happy, we have developed a different approach to recruitment. Our ethos is all about ‘hire for attitude, train for skill’. We don’t get people to talk about their ability to do the job – we get them to show us what they can do.In this one-day programme, we will share with you Happy’s method of recruiting staff and how to create job descriptions that accurately reflect what’s needed to make sure you get it right first time. Plus, you will explore what is needed to set up your new recruits’ to succeed during their probation period.

What you will learn

Imagine you are in charge of recruiting footballers for Manchester United, and that you have two candidates before you: John Motson and Cristiano Ronaldo. John Motson is a football commentator, who is great at talking about football but has never played the game at a serious level. Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the best footballers of his generation, but being articulate, about football or indeed anything, is not felt to be one of his strengths.If you watched John and Cristiano play, there would be only one choice. But if you used the recruitment method used by most companies, getting people to talk about their ability in interviews, you would be likely to end up with John Motson being recruited as your new star player.

It is an absurd idea but it is exactly what happens in company recruitment every day. People are tested not on their ability to do a job, but on their ability to talk about it. It is not surprising that a lot of recruitment ends up appointing the wrong people for the job and then not confirming them in probation.

At Happy, we have developed a different approach to recruitment, which we will share with you on this one-day programme.

Themes Covered

• Establish what enables people to work at their best
• Understand the difference between eligibility and suitability
• Get it right first time – understand why ending probation is a last resort
• Hire for attitude and train for skill
• Create job descriptions that reflect what’s needed – the behavioural requirements as well as the key skillsCreate a fantastic range of exercises to really test your applicants’ skills against their suitability for the job
• Improve your questioning and coaching skills to gain insight into your applicants
• Establish effective feedback mechanisms to your applicants, so that even unsuccessful applicants are left feeling positive
• Understand the value of a successful induction and what is needed to set up your new recruits’ to succeed
• Write, agree and review behavioural objectives in and beyond induction, and learn why these are as important as SMART objectives and how to do it well
• Your personal action plan.