Introduction To Hiring And Recruiting Strategy

Design a Fair, Effective, and Clear Process to Source, Screen, and Select the Best People for Your Team

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.3

- Understand how to scope a compelling and accurate job description
- Develop a strategy to source promising candidates
- Outline a screening and selection process to identify the right candidates

What you'll learn

Understand how to scope a compelling and accurate job description

Develop a strategy to source promising candidates

Outline a screening and selection process to identify the right candidates

Sell the right candidates on the job to successfully convince them to join your company

* Requirements

* This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to hire more effectively. There are no prerequisites.

Description

Hiring is an opportunity to bring talented people to your organization who can help take your business to the next level. Yet, if you make the wrong hiring decisions you can end up having wasted time, money and energy.

In this course, you'll gain a consolidated overview of the the latest research and best practices in hiring--so that you can design the right process for your own company. You'll gain actionable insights from bestselling business books and learn from real case studies about how to recruit, screen, and hire the right people for your team.

The course will cover:

5 typical steps in a hiring process—scoping, sourcing, screening, selecting, and selling candidates on the position—and give you practical exercises to develop each of these steps for your own company.
You’ll look specifically at how to identify the talent needs of your organization and then structure a job to meet these needs.
You’ll develop a job description and corresponding scorecard to identify the kinds of traits and skills you need to recruit for
You'll look specifically at how to identify the right recruitment channels to find candidates.
You'll develop a screening process—including crafting powerful interview questions and creating trial tasks to test for the right abilities.
And, finally, you'll learn how to make the job offer, and effectively bring someone on board.

By the end of this introductory course, you’ll have a solid understanding of best practices for hiring great people.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to learn strategies to successfully hire the best people

Course content

5 sections • 26 lectures

Introduction 4 lectures

Welcome Preview 03:01

Introduction to course instructor and what the course will cover

Case Study: Why Hiring Matters Preview 04:13

A colorful story of what can go wrong if you don't get hiring right

Typical Steps in the Hiring Process Preview 05:12

An overview of the steps in the hiring process: Scoping, Sourcing, Screening, Selecting, Selling

Exercise: Reflections on Your Personal Experiences with Hiring Preview 00:16

Reflection on personal hiring experiences so you know what parts of the process to emphasize and what to avoid

Scoping the Job 5 lectures

Identify Your Talent Needs Preview 02:25

Explanation of how to identify what roles your company needs to hire for

Scope the Job and Develop a Scorecard Preview 02:17

Best practices for crafting job descriptions and then developing corresponding scorecards to assess candidates

Exercise: Develop Your Own Scorecard Preview 01:04

Opportunity to practice developing a scorecard--using a real job opportunity at your company or a case study

Create a Compelling Job Description Preview 02:08

Best practices for crafting job descriptions that are accurate and compelling--so you attract the right candidates

Exercise: Craft Your Own Job Description Preview 01:37

Exercise to put these best practices into action and developing a winning job description for a real job at your company

Sourcing Candidates 5 lectures

Where Does Great Talent Come From? Preview 03:58

Overview of some of the most promising sources for identifying and finding the right talent for your roles--including referrals from current employees, networks, and targeted channels

Empowering Your Current Staff as Ambassadors Preview 01:28

How to equip your current staff to be one of your strongest referral channels for new employees

Building an Internal Pipeline Preview 02:46

How to develop your own employees internally to be prepared for subsequent roles--and identify when they're ready to take on open positions

How to Find the Right Hiring Channels Preview 02:20

Best practices for finding the right channels (job fairs, job boards, targeted advertisements, recruiting firms, etc) for posting your job

Exercise: Hiring Channel Map Preview 02:19

Practical exercise to take an existing job opening and map out all the channels through which you might find the best candidates to fill it

Screening and Selecting Candidates 7 lectures

Steps in a Screening Process Preview 04:53

Overview of how to screen candidates--from the initial read of applications, to phone screens, to trial tasks to in-person interviews, and final steps

Developing Trial Tasks Preview 01:29

Explanation of how to develop trial tasks that assess a prospective employee's fit for the job

Exercise: Identify the Strong Trial Tasks

In this quiz, you'll identify what trial tasks might be suitable to assess a candidate's fitness or qualifications for certain types of roles.

Crafting Interview Questions Preview 03:25

Best practices to develop interview questions that robustly and reliably assess candidates during interviews--including questions that get at both values alignment and technical skills