Build Your Dream Team: Recruitment Skills in 1 Day | Melbourne
Description
About This Course
Invest one focused day and walk away with practical skills, recognized credentials, and the confidence to apply what you’ve learned immediately.
Duration
A complete one-day program running from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM — carefully designed so you gain maximum value without disrupting your schedule for days.
How You’ll Learn
Join us in a professional classroom setting for an engaging, interactive experience. Prefer flexibility? We also offer live virtual sessions and fully customized in-house training at your location — just let us know what works best for you.
Language
Delivered entirely in clear, professional English so every participant can fully engage and benefit.
What You Earn
Upon completion you receive 8 PDUs / training hours — valuable continuing-education credits that support your professional development and certification requirements. You will also be awarded an official Course Completion Certificate, a tangible recognition of your commitment to growth.
Your Comfort is Covered
Enjoy complimentary lunch and refreshments throughout the day so you can stay focused, energized, and fully present.
Course Overview:
This training is designed to help hiring managers understand the core concepts behind running a successful recruitment campaign. You’ll learn what you are trying to achieve, why it's important, and how to execute it effectively.
Course Contents:
Hiring the right staff at the right time is critical to any organization's success. Managers involved in the recruitment process must ensure they follow legislation and best practices to avoid mistakes or costly litigation. This course provides managers with the necessary tools to develop effective recruitment strategies that help secure the right candidate for the role.
Participants will be guided through the entire recruitment process, from defining the role and understanding legal requirements to conducting interviews and making informed hiring decisions.
Why Take This Recruitment Skills Training?
Imagine being able to:
Present your company as a professional organization that people want to work for.
Ensure your recruitment process is fair, robust, and aligned with best practices.
Create a positive work environment by hiring employees with the right skills and experience.
Apply behavioral and situational questioning techniques to make interviews more effective.
Confidently recruit the right candidates, helping your organization meet its business goals.
This training will equip you to manage the recruitment process end-to-end, ensuring you can effectively attract and retain the best talent while enhancing your organization’s performance.
Course Features:
At the end of this recruitment skills training, you will be able to:
Design and deliver an effective, fair, and legally compliant recruitment campaign.
Understand best practices and recruitment legislation.
Confidently make independent hiring decisions.
Effectively recruit, assess, and place candidates in roles that fit their skills.
Who Can Attend?
Anyone interested in learning recruitment skills.
Certification:
Upon successful completion, participants will receive a Strivewisdom Certificate of Completion.
To discuss your team’s training needs, email us at info@strivewisdom.com
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Course Topics:
1. Aims of a Recruitment Campaign
○ Defining goals for a recruitment campaign. ○ Minimizing time spent recruiting while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
2. Recruitment as a Manager’s Responsibility
○ Identifying challenges and benefits of being a hiring manager. ○ Overcoming common issues and establishing a recruitment checklist.
3. The Law and Best Practice
○ Understanding equality legislation and how it impacts recruitment. ○ Maintaining fairness and compliance with the law throughout the recruitment process.
4. Defining the Role
○ Crafting effective job descriptions and person specifications. ○ Including organizational values in the hiring process.
5. A Brief History of Interviewing
○ Examining recruitment trends, including Competency-Based and Value-Based interviewing.
6. Making Improvements Without Increasing Workload
○ Enhancing the recruitment process with value-related behaviors in person specifications.
7. Advertising – Attracting Candidates
○ Creating job ads that attract the right candidates and accurately reflect the role.
8. Assessment and Selection
○ Identifying the best assessment methods for different roles and gathering evidence during assessments.
9. Telephone Interviews
○ Understanding when and how to use telephone interviews, with a template provided.
10. The Interview Process
○ Preparing for interviews and using the WASP technique to structure interviews. ○ Asking effective, competency-based questions and selling the organization to candidates.
11. Capturing the Evidence
○ Gathering and documenting relevant data to ensure fair and effective interviews.
12. Getting the Most Out of an Interview
○ Engaging in an activity that allows participants to assess candidate suitability based on interview data.
FAQs
- 1. Who is this Recruitment Skills Training designed for?
This course is designed for hiring managers, managers involved in recruitment, HR professionals, team leaders, and anyone interested in developing practical recruitment skills.
- 2. What is the duration of the Recruitment Skills Training?
The training is conducted over 1 day, providing an intensive introduction to the complete recruitment process.
- 3. How is the Recruitment Skills Training delivered?
The course is available through onsite, classroom, or virtual delivery, depending on the training arrangement.
- 4. What language is the training conducted in?
The training is conducted in English.
- 5. How many credits does the course provide?
The course provides 8 training credits.
- 6. Do I need previous recruitment experience to attend?
No specific prior recruitment experience is stated as a requirement. The course is suitable for anyone interested in learning recruitment skills.
- 7. What will I learn about recruitment campaigns?
You will learn how to define recruitment campaign goals, minimize recruitment time, maintain compliance, and develop an effective strategy for attracting suitable candidates.
- 8. Does the course cover recruitment legislation and best practices?
Yes. The training covers equality legislation, fairness, legal requirements, and recruitment best practices that managers should consider throughout the hiring process.
- 9. Will I learn how to create effective job descriptions?
Yes. The course covers defining roles, developing effective job descriptions and person specifications, and incorporating organizational values into the recruitment process.
- 10. Does the training cover candidate attraction and job advertising?
Yes. You will learn how to create job advertisements that accurately represent the position and attract candidates with appropriate skills and experience.
- 11. Will I learn different candidate assessment methods?
Yes. The course covers assessment and selection methods and explains how to choose appropriate approaches for different roles while gathering relevant evidence.
- 12. Does the course include telephone interviewing techniques?
Yes. Participants learn when and how to use telephone interviews, including the use of a telephone interview template.
- 13. What interview techniques are covered?
The training covers interview preparation, the WASP technique, competency-based questioning, and techniques for effectively presenting the organization to candidates.
- 14. Will I learn behavioral and competency-based interviewing?
Yes. The course introduces competency-based and value-based interviewing approaches and helps participants develop more effective interview questions.
- 15. Does the course teach how to make fair hiring decisions?
Yes. Participants learn how to gather and document relevant evidence from interviews and assessments to support fair and informed hiring decisions.
- 16. Will the training cover how to reduce recruitment mistakes?
Yes. The course focuses on structured recruitment processes, legal compliance, assessment methods, interview evidence, and best practices to help reduce common recruitment mistakes.
- 17. Will there be practical activities during the training?
Yes. The course includes activities that allow participants to work with interview information and assess candidate suitability based on recruitment and interview evidence.
- 18. What skills will I have after completing the course?
You will be better prepared to design and deliver fair recruitment campaigns, understand recruitment legislation and best practices, assess candidates, conduct effective interviews, and make independent hiring decisions.
- 19. Will I receive a certificate after completing the training?
Yes. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a Strivewisdom Certificate of Completion.
- 20. How can this training benefit my organization?
The training can help managers create more structured and compliant recruitment processes, attract suitable candidates, improve candidate assessment, and make hiring decisions that better align employees' skills with organizational needs.
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