Competency-based Recruitment Strategy Public Workshop

Hiring is everything. A wrong hire can be expensive and hard to correct if it ever is correctable. It is for this reason that managers need to be careful about their hiring decisions. This is not easy when candidates are putting their best foot forward and go to great lengths including lying to win the much-coveted job. Therefore, a lot of hires end up being fired and resignations. It is true that a lot of guesswork and gut feeling go into hiring decision-making but there is a way to be more objective about it.

Through this interactive and experiential workshop, the participants will learn how to develop a recruitment strategy that starts with using competency models to profile positions, ensuring job and culture fit, developing a competency-based screening process, establishing a sourcing strategy, using behavior-based interviewing, and formulating criteria for hiring decision-making. This program also covers proper onboarding to ensure that hires are not wasted due to poor orientation and onboarding practices.  The program includes an introduction to the recruitment process and methodologies and a lot of skill practice to ensure that participants can replicate them in the workplace.

Participants shall take home the following customizable tools for applying learning in the workplace

• Competency tables templates
• Competency-Based Recruitment Policy and Procedures
• Position Profiling Tools
• Behaviour-based interviewing templates
• Hiring Decision Matrix Template
• On-boarding Policy and Procedures Templates.

Terminal Objective:

By the end of 4-hour training, the participants will be able to develop a competency-based recruitment plan using the tools and templates supplied in the program

Learning Objectives:

• Specifically, the participants will be able to:
• Define Competency-based Recruitment
• Describe the elements of a position competency profile
• Explain the use of competencies in recruitment
• Enumerate the steps in developing a competency-based recruitment strategy
• Identify techniques for sourcing and screening
• Follow guidelines in conducting different types of candidate interviews
• Simulate behavior-based interviewing
• Create an action plan to apply learning in the workplace.