Targeted Selection is an approach for consistency when hiring managers are interviewing and selecting new employees. Targeted Selection training will develop a variety of key behavioral interviewing skills and sharpen existing skills to improve selection decisions. The skills and techniques learned during this workshop are immediately applicable to the job.

Course Objectives

By the end of this training, delegates must be able to:

• Analyze the costs incurred by an organization when a wrong hiring decision is made
• Develop a fair and consistent interviewing process for selecting employees
• Prepare better job advertisements and use a variety of markets
• Develop a job analysis and position profile
• Use traditional, behavioral, achievement-oriented, holistic, and situational (critical incident technique) interview questions
• Enhance their communication skills
• Effectively interview difficult applicants
• Check references more effectively
• Understand the basic employment and labor law rights that can affect the hiring process

Course Methodology

This highly interactive course includes trainer presentations, group activities, working in pairs, individual exercises, discussions, videos, reflection, and case studies. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own challenges and share good practice with each other.

Target Competencies

• Focus on competencies:
• Deliver a consistent interview experience:
• Gain multiple perspectives:
• Emphasize behavior: Past behavior predicts future behavior. By focusing on past behavior, interviewers get the clearest picture of how a candidate is likely to perform in the job.
• Level the playing field
• Reduce bias

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The function of ‘recruitment and selection’ plays a key role in the entry of new employees into the organization. As such, it has an overwhelming influence on the successful achievement of organizational objectives. This course will take you from the basics to the advanced and strategic aspects of this important HR function. It will show you the logical and correct steps you must take to structure and implement recruitment and selection practices.

Course Methodology

The course will use a combination of theory and practical application of course concepts. Participants will engage in role plays and mathematically based exercises to help apply fairness and equality in hiring employees.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Target Audience

Managers, team leaders, supervisors, administrators, specialists, business partners and officers in the functions of human resources and recruitment whose job requires recruiting and selecting employees. The program is also very useful for all those outside human resources who conduct frequent and important selection interviews.

Target Competencies

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