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Targeting and Attracting the Right Candidates

Learn new strategies and tactics from the pros. It has never been more important to advertise in the right places, get your job adverts right and maximise your return on investment. Drawing on our proven experience, research and knowledge, this course covers writing effective job adverts, how to find and target candidates, how to develop an employer branding campaign and how to use search engine marketing tactics. This course is for hiring managers and HR professionals new to recruitment advertising or those who need an update of their knowledge and skills. We customise the training ahead of time so that it incorporates your current recruitment challenges and your hiring criteria.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  Develop an effective recruitment advertising strategy
  Write job adverts that work
  Formulate an employer branding campaign
  Maximise the effectiveness of corporate websites as recruitment tools
  Get the best out of social networking sites
  Understand and use SEO and job board advertising

Essential Interviewing Skills

This workshop will benefit HR and hiring managers who are required to interview employees, use a competency-based approach and recommend suitable candidates. It is designed primarily for those who have had little or no previous formal interview training. For more experienced interviewers the course provides a chance to practice interviewing and receive feedback. The workshop incorporates a role play interview with a feedback and analysis session and is filled with practical strategies, tools and techniques. This highly practical interviewing skills course will be tailored to work around your company’s competency framework and recruiting culture.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  Prepare for and structure competency based interviews, panel interviews and telephone interviews
  Design an interview framework based on competencies
  Keep the process legal and prepare for a great candidate experience
  Increase your ability to take effective notes
  Develop your listening and questioning skills
  Classify and evaluate evidence
  Use the STAR Model

Advanced Interviewing and Feedback Skills

This course is for HR professionals who are required to interview for senior management positions and who have received interview training in the past but need a solid refresher to bring their skills up to date.

During the course you will learn about best practice senior selection methods, how to feedback to candidates and receive constructive feedback on your interviewing style and technique from experienced interviewers.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  Make improvements in your senior level interviewing technique
  Make quick and accurate hiring decisions
  Effectively assess candidates using panel interviews
  Feedback to senior candidates
  Improve your current selection process

Assessor Training

The quality of assessors can make or break assessment and development centres. This course is beneficial for HR professionals who need to run assessment centres on potential or existing employees and is designed to provide the essential tools to becoming effective assessors. It will cover all the key aspects to accurately observe, interpret and measure competencies in an assessment centre setting and the rationale behind assessment centres, structured interviews, how to assess fairly, manage the wash up session and give feedback. The training content is flexible and can be tailored to include practical sessions focused on the actual assessment or development exercises to be used.

By the end of this course you will be able to: 

  Understand the nature of the assessment process and your role as an assessor
  Use competencies to assess against a competency framework
  Interpret evidence from in-tray exercises, case studies, group exercises, role plays and interviews
  Mark written exercises, group exercises, role plays and interviews against competencies accurately and objectively
  Run a wash up session and make fair decisions
  Prepare for and run a face to face feedback session

To find out more about how we can help your organisation please call us on 020 7193 7510 or contact us below.