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Course Code: HRM 2727
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Smart Staffing: Improving Recruitment, Selection and Retention of Employees
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HR Strategy and Training
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Introduction
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Pressure on recruitment and selection units in organizations seems to be constant, if not increasing with time. More is required with less. New and more effective recruitment channels have become a necessity now that branding techniques and use of technology is no longer a choice. The diversification of commonly used selection methodologies has become essential to improve the reliability of selection decisions and improve the quality of hires. Moreover, performance measures and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have become standard in measuring the reliability and effectiveness of recruitment and selection within organizations. This course is designed, and constantly updated, to explore these topics. It is designed from an operational and cultural perspective and is expected to enable participants to build a holistic approach towards their activities and introduce system changes.
Course Objectives
At the end of the training course, participants will be able to
- Develop budgeted workforce plans in accordance with company directives and market conditions.
- Use differentiated recruitment channels to maximize recruitment efficiency and minimize cost
- Design specific selection frameworks for various job families and improve their reliability and validity.
- Plan for and implement a competency-based interview.
- Apply the right measures and KPIs to evaluate the effectiveness of recruitment and selection efforts.
- Design exit interview guides and analyze results.
Course Audience
Who is this course for, and can benefit the most
- Is involved in HR Strategic and Management HR roles
- Has 4 to 7 years of experience in the HR
- Extensive knowledge of different HR functions
- Can judge complicated situations using HR knowledge acquired over many years.
- Understands the business beyond Human Resources and has influence within the overall organization.
Course Outline
The course aims and learning outcomes
Fundamentals of workforce
planning
- Defining workforce planning
- Forecasting employee needs
- Keys to successful workforce planning
- The strategic staffing process
- Demand analysis
- Trend analysis
- Ratio analysis
- Scatter plot
- Zero manning methodology
- Capturing and tabulating information
Recruitment planning
- Defining needs
- Planning the various stages
- Roles of line managers and recruitment personnel
- Internal recruitment sources
- External recruitment sources
- Middle East recruitment trends
Candidate assessment
- Validity and reliability of assessment methods
- Job fit and organizational fit assessment
- Assessment centers
- Psychometric and ability assessments
- Budgeting: processes and approaches
- Importance and types of budgets
- The budgeting process
- Approaches to developing budgets
- Incremental
- Zero based
- Activity based
- Developing department budget
Advanced interviewing
techniques
- Importance of information and data capture
- Types of interviews
- Competency based interviews
- Analysing jobs
- Identification and leveling of critical competencies
- Developing interview guides
- Quantitative and qualitative interview reports
- Exit interviews
- When, how and by whom
- Format and content
- Analysis of results
Measuring recruitment
efforts
- Internal versus external recruitment effectiveness
- Effectiveness and efficiency measures
- The main KPIs for measuring the recruitment function:
- Applicant response ratios
- Qualified application ratios
- Yield rates
- Time to fill and time to join
- Offer acceptance ratio
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BOOST's Professional Attendance Certificate “BPAC” is always given to the delegates after completing the training course, and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%, besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.
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Our Training programs are implemented by combining the participants' academic knowledge and practical practice (30% theoretical / 70% practical activities).
At The end of the training program, Participants are involved in practical workshop to show their skills in applying what they were trained for. A detailed report is submitted to each participant and the training department in the organization on the results of the participant's performance and the return on training. Our programs focus on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.
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