This month we’re highlighting two pieces of e-learning, a video and a board game that we think everyone involved in recruitment should experience.
Why?
Because it’s important to get recruitment right. When we bring new people into a team, it can have an enormous impact on how that team performs, their engagement and the overall success of your organisation.
And it’s an expensive process, that can be even more expensive if:
- The process we use to advertise, shortlist and fill the vacancy is not robust.
- We discriminate either directly or indirectly during the recruitment process.
- We forget that the recruitment process doesn’t end with the job offer.
This e-learning module guides learners through the recruitment process, starting with the question, “Should you recruit a ‘like for like’ replacement?”
It’s important that before you even start the recruitment process, you understand the gap(s) you need to fill, and the options available to you. There might, after all, be an opportunity reshape the team or business for the challenges ahead.
Of course, there’s much more to the process than simply knowing the role you need to fill and we go on to explore:
- The Job Description.
- The Person Specification.
- Advertising the Role.
- Shortlisting Candidates.
- Interviews.
- The Decision.
Whilst it is perfectly acceptable to select a candidate using criteria such as essential skills, it is not lawful, or fair, to make decisions that are discriminatory.
Building on the learning from the previous module, learners explore where discrimination can occur in the recruitment cycle and how to ensure theirs is fair to everyone. It looks in more detail at:
- Recruitment and the Law.
- The forms of discrimination and how they can, intentionally or not, manifest.
- Unconscious Bias.
- Describing jobs in ways that don’t discriminate, or potentially deter applicants from certain groups.
- Writing job adverts that are fair and open to all.
- Deciding who to interview without prejudice.
- Ensuring interviews are fair.
But it’s e-learning – that’s just tick and click, isn’t it? How do I know they’ve learnt anything.
This is a question that should probably be asked more often than it is!
The answer is that when you choose
Trainers’ Library®, as with all of our e-learning modules, there are activities and a worksheet for participants to complete. This requires them to pause and really think about how the learning applies to them and their role. And it can provide evidence that the learning has not just been ‘tick box’ completed but engaged with at a deeper level.
This innovative board game is a fantastic tool that can be used to review not just your recruiter’s but everyone’s understanding of equality law in a fun and engaging way.
Newly updated to include questions that reflect the latest changes to legislation, this fun and competitive game will really get participants thinking about equality law, and how it applies to them.
So, you’ve got a recruitment process that is fair and robust, and which helps ensure you find the very best available candidate to fill your role.
That’s great.
But it’s only great if they stay and you can release the potential they demonstrated.
The importance of the onboarding process is often overlooked, which is perhaps why it can sometimes be haphazard and badly planned. This short video explores the importance of getting onboarding right and provides some simple guidance to ensure that those first few weeks in post provide your successful candidate with the support they need to integrate into your team and to start on the path to delivering the results you hoped for.
Remember, the success of your recruitment process is ultimately determined by the person you appoint and the impact they have. If the chosen candidate leaves, or is de-motivated but stays, then you are going to be left with an expensive problem – one that could keep repeating itself until you get this vital part of the jigsaw right.
If you’d like to know more about these modules, or other materials we have to support the recruitment process or any other learning needs within your organisation,
please get in touch.