Introduction to Hiring and Recruiting Strategy

Course details

Hiring is an opportunity to bring talented people to your organization who can help take your business to the next level. Yet, if you make the wrong hiring decisions you can end up having wasted time, money and energy. 

In this course, you'll gain a consolidated overview of the the latest research and best practices in hiring--so that you can design the right process for your own company. You'll gain actionable insights from bestselling business books and learn from real case studies about how to recruit, screen, and hire the right people for your team. 

The course will cover:

•  5 typical steps in a hiring process—scoping, sourcing, screening, selecting, and selling candidates on the position—and give you practical exercises to develop each of these steps for your own company.
• You'll look specifically at how to identify the talent needs of your organization and then structure a job to meet these needs.
• You'll develop a job description and corresponding scorecard to identify the kinds of traits and skills you need to recruit for
• You'll look specifically at how to identify the right recruitment channels to find candidates.
• You'll develop a screening process—including crafting powerful interview questions and creating trial tasks to test for the right abilities.
• And, finally, you'll learn how to make the job offer, and effectively bring someone on board.

By the end of this introductory course, you'll have a solid understanding of best practices for hiring great people.