Developing your Recruitment Strategy

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Find out how to link your recruitment strategy to organisational strategy, values and direction
Maximum 20 participants 1-day interactive seminar
London - 20 Oct 2010, 9 Feb 2011, 27 Oct 2011
London £550 + VAT

Developing your Recruitment Strategy in brief:

The economic environment remains a challenging one, though there are hints that the corner has been turned and recovery is on the horizon.

Getting the right people in the right place is now more important than ever in the commercial sector if businesses are to react quickly and gain an advantage over competitors.

For public sector organisations the outlook is one of an impending election and spending cuts. However, delivering the demanding efficiencies that will be required without impacting on frontline services will need talented people in the right roles - so recruiting strategically is of great importance.

A truly strategic approach to recruitment should focus on aligning resourcing strategy with long term organisational objectives, connecting recruitment with organisational values and optimising your approach to maintain flexibility in your workforce. Today, attracting and retaining the best candidates from the widest possible pool truly requires new strategies in recruitment and retention practices to entice the wealth of talented and enthusiastic candidates that your competitors are trying to win.

Harnessing stretched resources – people, financial and time – and focusing your efforts to get best results is imperative in the current climate. This one-day seminar offers the opportunity to access meaningful initiatives and strategies to cement your talent acquisition process and stay ahead of your competition.

This event is CPD accredited.

Designed for:

Designed for directors, HR practitioners, recruitment officers and managers, resourcing professionals

Seminar highlights:

  • Define and design a recruitment strategy that supports your strategic objectives and business direction
  • Connect your recruitment strategy to your organisational values
  • Appreciate how to recruit within the law and in support of your diversity aims and aspirations
  • Combine law and strategy by making the most of employment contracts: top tips to ensure you retain flexibility and use the employment contract to your maximum advantage
  • Learn how the Equality Act will affect recruitment and understand the impact of new case law on medical questionnaires

The Programme

09:00
Registration and coffee
09:30
Welcome, introduction and objectives for the day
09:45
A recruitment strategy: the business case
  • What are the business benefits of developing a recruitment strategy?
  • Articulating your recruitment strategy: what to consider
  • Assessing the market – challenges of recruiting in the current climate
  • Linking your recruitment strategy to your business objectives
10:15
Connecting your recruitment strategy to your organisational values
  • What are organisational values and why are they important?
  • Why recruit for values?
  • Integrating values assessment into your recruitment process
  • The relationship between organisational values and your brand
11:00
Coffee
11:15
Examining the power of advertising and branding in recruitment
  • What is the role of branding in attracting the best talent?
  • Job descriptions and person specifications: attracting the right people to your organisation
  • Is your brand and advertising strategy delivering results?
  • Taking advantage of a diverse talent pool: delivering on your diversity aspirations
  • Where are employers most vulnerable? Discussing key problem areas to safeguard your organisation
11:45
Employment contracts: combining law and strategy
  • Employment status: adapting your recruitment strategy to fit the role
  • Considering agency staff and temporary workers
  • Fixed term and part-time contracts
  • Remuneration and pay reviews: building flexibility into the benefit structure
  • Flexible working arrangements and homeworkers - adapting your recruitment strategy to support your requirements
  • Competition and confidentiality
  • Enhancing flexibility: retaining the capacity for change
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Probationary periods
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Linking your recruitment strategy to legal requirements
  • Your recruitment policy: best practice
  • Avoid discrimination and ensure your organisation embraces diversity: examining race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion and belief and age discrimination
  • The Equality Bill and recruitment
  • How much must an employee reveal?
  • What questions can and can't you ask?
  • How do you decide what's a reasonable adjustment?
  • Medical questionnaires – new case law
  • Equal pay: going beyond the law and making it part of your ethos
14:30
Making your recruitment cycle, procedures and process strategic
  • How can you ensure your selection process and procedure supports your recruitment strategy?
  • Selection methods – advantages and disadvantages, costs and benefits
  • Designing a competency framework for your organisation: linking competencies to strategic objectives
  • How do you test for the selected competencies?
  • How do you diversity-proof your competencies?
  • How do you assess merit? Are your current competencies skewed towards certain groups
  • Making up the interview panel: key considerations
  • Measuring and monitoring success
15:30
Coffee
15:45
What happens next?
  • Translating recruitment competencies to performance expectations
  • Maximising on the induction process: integration from the start
  • Getting the most out of the probationary period
16:30
End of seminar

Client testimonials

" Very professionally delivered. An expert overview."

—Oliver Sergison, Senior HR Consultant, City & Guilds

"It was reassuring to know that the ideas we have to improve our recruitment process are in line with your recommendations."

—Sheralyn Dowey, HR Officer, NCH Marketing Services

"Really useful to focus on recruitment for a whole day and go back with some valuable actions."

—Michelle Beardshaw, Group HR Manager, Bromford Housing Group

Highly factually informative

—Deirdra Moloney, Head of HR Resourcing and Advice, ACCA

Excellent, very useful informative training

—Irrum Hussain, HR Advisor, Unatrac Ltd

Going into a new world as a company, needed some questions answered and got more than planned! Excellent, Eye opening and very knowledgeable

—Kelly McCarthy, Resourcing Advisor, Mourant Services Ltd

Venue details

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For further information on the training facilities we use, please call us on +44 (0)20 8371 7010

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Our People

Diane Hodgson

Our People

Penny Macmillan

Diane Hodgson, Director of Coaching and Management Development - has been a trainer for the past 20 years, designing and running training and consultancy projects in a wide range of organisational, management and personal development areas. She has a BA in Psychology, an MSc and Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy and is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist. Diane works across all industry sectors. 

In addition to training and consultancy projects, Diane provides one-to-one coaching, skills development, stress management and counselling to individuals and company employees. Diane also has a private psychotherapy and counselling practice. She is also a therapist with one of the national employee assistance programmes. Diane designed and delivers several of JSB’s HR strategy Seminars including Developing and Integrating your Diversity Strategy, as well as undertaking various related consulting projects.

Having worked as a consultant with the Commission for Racial Equality, Diane is currently a member of Diversity and Equality Committee of the UK Council for Psychotherapy.

Key areas of expertise:  

  • Equal Opportunities, Managing Diversity, Dealing with Discrimination and Harassment 
  • Interpersonal and Communication Skills 
  • Equal Opportunities and Diversity 
  • Counselling, Coaching and Monitoring 
  • Stress Management 
  • Assertiveness and Influencing Skills 
  • Recruitment and Selection 
  • Team Building, Facilitation and Group Process 
  • Performance Management and Appraisal Skills

Penny Macmillan MA Chartered FCIPD is a Solicitor and has for many years specialised in employment law, with particular experience of: TUPE, unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and drafting employment contracts, policies, procedures and handbooks. She is former Head of the Legal Department at The Race Equality Centre and now practises in her own firm.

Before qualifying as a lawyer, Penny held positions as a Group Personnel Manager for a health authority; Employee Relations Manager for a major retailer; and Personnel and Training Manager for a large catering services company. Penny is equally well qualified and experienced as a management trainer, HR specialist and lawyer. She delivers workshops and seminars on a wide range of employment law and best practice subjects and is a personal tutor on JSB’s Advanced Certificate in Employment Law (ACEL).

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Testimonials

“Highly factually informative”

— Deirdra Moloney, Head of HR Resourcing and Advice,
ACCA

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