Recruitment Best Practice
Anyone who is involved in recruitment, whether by sitting on interview panels or running the process, should have an understanding of the imperatives associated with fair selection.
The core of this module includes:
- Knowing the suggestions contained in relevant Equalities Codes of Practice
- Making informed choices on how these should be applied in your circumstances
- Understanding the reality that we all carry prejudices with us and need to be able to set these aside through good practice
- Following definite steps to anticipate legal challenge
- References ~ what is the dual duty of care? Should references be seen by interviewers before they meet candidates? Should references cover issues concerning absence?
We can run short workshops to raise understanding amongst your key staff and/or we can work with you to review your routine processes.
Recruitment Project Management
We can plan, manage and facilitate critical recruitment projects from the conception through to completion, providing objective professional expertise at all stages to ensure you achieve the best possible results.
We are not a recruitment agency and work with you in-house, adding value through professional rigour in any assignment, ensuring that you 'learn by doing' and offering our objective expert view of your routine processes.
Past experience includes:
Refining the processes involved in running an operation supporting 1,000+ vacancies pa.
Review of Hospital Consultant selection protocol to ensure involvement of patient representatives
Support of the introduction of MMC (Modernising Medical Careers) in NHS Scotland, 2007, which involved the organisation of over 8,000 interviews
Establishment and operation of high volume temporary staff Agency
Management of critical post appointments, including bespoke advertising campaigns