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Time:
The estimated total running time of all modules in this course is 19 Hours 30 Minutes


Recruitment for Managers (2 days)
0:00 AM Recruitment for Managers (2 Day) Workbook
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0:00 AM Recruiting Fairly - The Process

This module is expected to last for 40 minutes


Notes
This is a useful e-learning module, which we recommend asking participants to complete before attending day one of this workshop
9:00 AM Recruitment - The Cost of Getting it Wrong

This module is expected to last for 20 minutes

Aims:
• To encourage participants to consider the importance of an effective recruitment strategy.
• To consider the importance of an important induction and training strategy.
• To help participants recognise the cost of getting it wrong.



Notes
If using the workbook, withhold page 3 until the debrief. 
9:30 AM Attitude or Skills? - What to Look for When Recruiting

This module is expected to last for 25 minutes

Aims:
• To explore the link between skills, attitudes and behaviours.
• To help participants understand the importance of considering attitude as well as skills when recruiting staff.
• To introduce the idea that attitude and skills can be examined in behaviour-based interviews.



Notes
Run a quick recap of what was covered on Day 1 before running the icebreaker.
10:00 AM Perfect Fit - Preparing a Person Specification

This module is expected to last for 90 minutes

Aims:
• To identify the purpose of the person specification when recruiting and selecting.
• To identify key principles for drawing up legal and effective person specifications.



Notes
Take a break after the activity.

10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM Perfect Fit - Preparing a Person Specification

This module is expected to last for 90 minutes

Aims:
• To identify the purpose of the person specification when recruiting and selecting.
• To identify key principles for drawing up legal and effective person specifications.



Notes
Complete this module from the point you took a break. 
11:45 AM Take Your Pick - An Exercise in Short-Listing Candidates

This module is expected to last for 100 minutes

Aims:
• To identify the purpose of effective short-listing in recruitment and selection.
• To identify key principles for short-listing.
• To identify potential difficulties with short-listing and ways of overcoming these.
• To provide an opportunity for participants to practise short-listing; ensuring a fair and accurate assessment of evidence.



Notes
Run this module until the end of the activity and then break for lunch. 

12:45 PM Lunch
1:45 PM Take Your Pick - An Exercise in Short-Listing Candidates

This module is expected to last for 100 minutes

Aims:
• To identify the purpose of effective short-listing in recruitment and selection.
• To identify key principles for short-listing.
• To identify potential difficulties with short-listing and ways of overcoming these.
• To provide an opportunity for participants to practise short-listing; ensuring a fair and accurate assessment of evidence.



Notes
Continue where you left off and complete this module. 
2:30 PM Behaviour-Based Interviews - What and Why

This module is expected to last for 30 minutes

Aims:
• To explain the difference between traditional methods of selection interviewing and behaviour-based selection interviews.
• To highlight the disadvantages of 'traditional' interview techniques.
• To highlight the advantages of structured 'behaviour-based' interviews.




3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM The Shopping List - An Exercise in Unconscious Bias

This module is expected to last for 40 minutes

Aims:
• To demonstrate how our own beliefs, values and past experiences affect how we perceive people and situations.
• To raise awareness of how often unconscious bias impacts upon our perceptions of others.
• To understand the impact of unconscious bias on our interactions with others and the decisions we take.
4:00 PM Chain Reaction - Key Learning and Plan of Action

This module is expected to last for 20 minutes

Aims:
• To remind participants of their key learning points and action points from the course or workshop.




4:30 PM End of Day 1



Recruitment for Managers (2 days) - Day Two
9:15 AM Fair Play? - A Case Study Exercise in Recruitment and Selection

This module is expected to last for 210 minutes

Aims:
• To identify the key stages of the recruitment and selection process and current best practice in relation to each stage.
• To identify and describe the purposes and potential uses of recruitment and selection documentation and the consequences of inappropriate/incomplete records.
• To identify ways of ensuring fair, equitable and legal decision-making with the recruitment and selection process.
• To identify inappropriate actions and behaviours on the part of those involved in recruitment and and strategies for dealing with these.



Notes
Before running this module, take 15 minutes to review the chain participants created the day before and the key learning points from Day 1. 

You should not need the full amount of time to run Fair Play, as some of the learning will have been covered the day before. Take a break after the first 90 minutes or at a suitable point. 

10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Fair Play? - A Case Study Exercise in Recruitment and Selection

This module is expected to last for 210 minutes

Aims:
• To identify the key stages of the recruitment and selection process and current best practice in relation to each stage.
• To identify and describe the purposes and potential uses of recruitment and selection documentation and the consequences of inappropriate/incomplete records.
• To identify ways of ensuring fair, equitable and legal decision-making with the recruitment and selection process.
• To identify inappropriate actions and behaviours on the part of those involved in recruitment and and strategies for dealing with these.



Notes
Complete this module. As participants have already had a handout about person specifications, you may want to leave out the final two pages of the handout that accompanies this module. 

12:30 PM Lunch
1:15 PM Recruitment - Interview Practice

This module is expected to last for 180 minutes

Aims:
• To enable participants to understand what is needed to run an effective recruitment interview and to practise doing so.



Notes
Run this module as described, including breaks.

Before moving on to the review activity, show participants the video, "The Importance of Onboarding".
4:15 PM The Importance of Onboarding
Updated: Jul 2024
4:30 PM Action Planning - Implementing the Learning

This module is expected to last for 15 minutes

Aims:
• To allow participants to reflect upon what they have learnt and create a plan for implementing the learning with clear goals and timescales.
• To identify the additional support they will need in order to achieve their goals.




5:00 PM Course End