How do I measure up?
Featured in the Recruiting and Keeping the Right People training manual
By Susan Iacovou
Category: Recruitment, Selection and Induction
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
Many managers see recruitment as something which comes naturally to them – ‘after all, we know the organisation and we know the job, so we’ll know the right person when we see them’. They assume that recruiting staff is simply a matter of common sense mixed with a dollop of good luck. However, in reality, recruiting staff is just like any other job task – to do the job well takes a certain type of person, with particular skills and personal characteristics. In this training activity, you will give participants the opportunity to discuss the skills and characteristics needed to be a good recruiter and get the chance to compose a picture of the ‘ideal recruiter’. You will also help them to review their own personality and skills against the ideal.
You begin the training activity by outlining the need to regard recruitment as a specialised task. Next, you ask participants to split into two groups to carry out an exercise looking at the key skills and personal characteristics required by an effective recruiter. The groups use two sets of slips listing key skills and characteristics to help them put together a person specification for the ideal recruiter. You then take feedback from the groups and conclude this part of the session with a discussion in more detail of the most important characteristics and skills. Next, you give participants the chance to compare their own characteristics and skills with the picture of the ideal recruiter and to draw up an action plan to develop areas they may need to address as individuals. Finally, you conclude the training activity by summarising the ideal recruiter’s skills and characteristics. You then tell participants that you will be tackling many of these skills and characteristics in more detail during later sessions of the programme.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to provide an opportunity for participants to discuss their role as recruiters, whether line managers, personnel officers, or specialised recruiters, they need to understand the nature and importance of the recruitment role within the organisation.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:15:00 |
| No of Pages: | 12 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers as a stand-alone module to identify the personal characteristics and skills required by an effective recruiter. It is also a useful introduction to ‘What kind of person do we need?’ as it gives the participants an opportunity to put together a very basic person specification.
Download the training activity, How do I measure up? as featured in the Fenman training manual; Recruiting and Keeping the Right People