Why is a structured process important?
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)
Whatever the size or nature of your organisation, having a skilled and motivated team plays a crucial role in ensuring future success. Finding the right people can result in reduced staff turnover, improving team and organisational effectiveness and ultimately in achieving your goals. With so much at stake, choosing the right person shouldn’t be left to chance or to intuition. Instead, it needs careful management and the application of key recruitment and selection skills. In this training activity, participants are given a chance to explore some of their own preconceptions about people and to examine how these preconceptions might interfere with objective selection. Participants also review the costs of poor decision making and the benefits of a structured recruitment and retention process are discussed.
You start this training activity by explaining how and why many organisations make recruitment decisions and then move on to show how these are often the result of a recruiter’s preconceptions. You then ask participants to work in groups on an exercise to highlight the way in which their own experiences and prejudices influence the assumptions they make about people. You then ask the groups to feed back their thoughts before working together to identify those answers which they can be absolutely confident are true. You conclude the exercise by highlighting the dangers in making assumptions and the negative impact these can have on recruitment decisions. Next, you ask participants again to work in two groups to identify other reasons why recruitment can go wrong. You follow this by recording their thoughts on a sheet of flipchart paper before going through a list of such reasons. You then take participants through the costs of poor recruitment decisions. Finally, you conclude by emphasizing the main learning points of the session.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to ensure that participants understand why recruitment decisions need careful management, and the application of key recruitment and selection skills.
| 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 at the beginning of a training programme as a means of establishing the need for a structured recruitment and retention process. This training activity also generates interest in, and commitment to, the rest of the programme sessions.
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