Recruitment and Interviewing Skills - Tutorials on how to recruit people

Learn how to recruit the right people with bite-size audio-visual tutorials, covering the documents you need, through to interviewing skills and knowledge every manager should have.

Recruiting people - Step 1 - The exit interview Click to play

Exit Interview

6 mins 55 secs
This tutorial will help you establish a workable process for exit interviews to help you establish reasons why people leave your business.

On completion you will be able to:

  • Understand your role in managing labour turnover
  • Explain the difference between planned and unplanned recruitment
  • Follow a defined recruitment process
  • Develop a useful exit interview for all leavers
  • Reflect on who would be the best person to conduct these vital interview

Benefits

To the manager – you will have a professional and consistent approach to staff turnover

To your staff – staff will know there is a confidential process for all leavers to give their views on their experiences in your business

To your business – you will be able to develop a fair and consistent approach to all leavers which will give you a true reflection on how people feel they are treated and where you may need to make improvements in your recruitment or induction system, management training or work processes


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Recruiting people - Step 1 - The exit interview

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Documents you can download

  • Exit interview questionnaire
  • Exit interview bulletin
  • Managing staff turnover bulletin

Exit Interview

6 mins 55 secs
This tutorial will help you establish a workable process for exit interviews to help you establish reasons why people leave your business.
Recruiting people - Step 2 - Documents you can use Click to play

Interview Documents

6 mins 11 secs
This tutorial will help you establish a workable process to help you establish quality documents for recruitment purposes.

On completion you will be able to:

  • Understand your role in establishing a professional recruitment process
  • Explain the purpose of each recruitment documents
  • Follow a defined recruitment structure for attracting quality staff
  • Develop a suite of working documents
  • Identify which recruitment documents will be useful in your business

Benefits

To the manager – you will have a professional and consistent approach to documenting staff selection which will go some way to demonstrating an equal opportunities approach to recruitment

To your staff – knowledge and quality documentation will start to create confidence in staff involvement in the recruitment process

To your business – You will be able to develop a professional, transparent, fair and consistent approach to all potential new employees and therefore to the business itself


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Delegation skills
Exit Interview
Interview Structure
Performance Management Skills
Staff Induction Process
Staff Training and Development
The Performance Contract
What makes a good manager?
Recruiting people - Step 2 - Documents you can use

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Documents you can download

  • Application form (example)
  • Preface notes for application form
  • Interview summary sheet
  • Job description template
  • Job description example
  • Person specification template
  • Person specification example
  • Advertising the vacancy bulletin
  • Job description bulletin
  • Screening for selection bulletin
  • The application form bulletin
  • The person specification bulletin

Interview Documents

6 mins 11 secs
This tutorial will help you establish a workable process to help you establish quality documents for recruitment purposes.
Step 3 - The interview Click to play

Interview Structure

10 mins 49 secs
This tutorial will help you establish a structure for a professional recruitment interview.

On completion you will be able to:

  • Understand your role in establishing a professional recruitment interview
  • Explain the preparation required prior to the interview itself
  • Prepare good questions to try to gain the information you require
  • Develop an equal opportunities approach to recruitment
  • Skilfully deal with internal applicants

Benefits

To the manager – you will have a professional and consistent approach to preparing for and interviewing potential staff

To your staff – will develop confidence in their involvement in the recruitment process

To your business – you will be able to develop a professional, transparent, fair and consistent approach to all potential new employees and therefore attracting quality staff


Related tutorials

Delegation skills
Interview Documents
Interview Structure
Performance Management Skills
Staff Induction Process
Staff Training and Development
The Performance Contract
What makes a good manager?
Step 3 - The interview

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Documents you can download

  • Information to be given at interview
  • Interview summary sheet
  • Structure for recruitment interview
  • Decision time bulletin
  • Preparing for interview bulletin
  • The recruitment interview bulletin

Interview Structure

10 mins 49 secs
This tutorial will help you establish a structure for a professional recruitment interview.
Step 4 - Induction Click to play

Staff Induction Process

5 mins 15 secs
This tutorial will help you establish a structure for a professional induction process for all new staff members.

On completion you will be able to:

  • Understand your role in establishing an induction process when people feel welcomed and professional treated from day one
  • Explain what is needed to make a new employee’s induction successful
  • Prepare well for the person’s first days in your business
  • Develop a workable induction checklist
  • Establish key points for each individual’s induction into their job role

Benefits

To the manager – you will have a professional and consistent approach to preparing for all new recruits into their job role, team and to the company

To your staff – staff will develop confidence in their involvement in the overall induction process which will help new employees feel welcomed and settled

To your business – research shows that people stay longer in a job or company when they feel they have received a professional induction


Related tutorials

Delegation skills
Exit Interview
Interview Documents
Interview Structure
Performance Management Skills
The Performance Contract
What makes a good manager?
Step 4 - Induction

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Documents you can download

  • Induction/orientation checklist
  • Orientation/induction bulletin
  • Welcome to the company bulletin
  • Welcome to the team bulletin

Staff Induction Process

5 mins 15 secs
This tutorial will help you establish a structure for a professional induction process for all new staff members.