Recruiting & Retention CD-Rom Training Software: Staffing Your Organization

Training Course Description / Outline

Recruiting and Retention Training: Staffing Your Organization offers the student an overview the benefits of forecasting human resource needs and using a job analysis to create a thorough job description. The training program emphasizes the importance of the job description as a tool for the employment process that can help determine how a company identifies candidates, decides on a job source, and advertises job openings. In addition, the training program defines and outlines ways to comply with the many employment laws impacting the entire employment process.

Learn To

• Use the five steps for creating a human resource plan.
• Avoid common mistakes when analyzing a job and creating a description.
• Identify the three steps of the recruiting process.
• Identify the five functions of effective recruitment advertising.
• Identify common recruiting mistakes.
• Identify ways employment laws impact recruitment.
• Identify statutory employment laws.
• List ways regulatory agencies enforce employment laws.

Training Audience

The target audience for this training program is managers, supervisors, and team leaders who are involved in the recruiting process or in the process of making sure employees remain satisfied in their positions.

Total Training Time

2 to 4 hours

Training Objectives

Unit 1: Principles of Planning and Recruitment (0.5 - 1 hour)

• Identify the four elements assessed in a SWOT analysis.
• Identify the six positive outcomes of human resource planning.
• Analyze workplace strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• Identify the five steps in human resource planning.
• Identify two techniques of determining future human resource capabilities.
• Use the five steps for creating a human resource plan.
• Identify the two main outputs of a job analysis.
• Create a job description.
• Avoid common mistakes when analyzing a job and creating a description.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation, you will meet with Jessica Stone and Ron Spear, to begin planning for an upcoming hiring period within Icon’s Sales Department in Chicago. To promote a new line of products, Icon is supplementing VinTech’s current sales force with one hundred additional employees. During this first team meeting, you will need to create a human resource plan and a job description. However, be careful to avoid common mistakes when analyzing a job and creating a job description.

Unit 2: Recruitment Process (0.5 - 1 hour)

• Identify the three steps of the recruiting process.
• Identify internal and external recruitment methods.
• Recruit employees through community partnerships.
• Identify the benefits of hiring a recruitment advertising agency.
• Identify the five functions of effective recruitment advertising.
• Identify the optimal times to advertise.
• Identify common recruiting mistakes.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation, you will meet with Jessica Stone and Ron Spear, to begin planning for an upcoming hiring period within Icon’s Sales Department in Chicago. To promote a new line of products, Icon is supplementing VinTech’s current sales force with one hundred additional employees. In your last team meeting, you created a human resource plan and created a job description. Today, you will continue to work on the recruitment process by identifying the five functions of effective recruitment advertising and optimal times to advertise.

Unit 3: Employment Laws (1 - 2 hours)

• Identify ways employment laws impact recruitment.
• Identify statutory employment laws.
• Identify the importance of applying employment laws.
• Identify the agencies that enforce employment laws.
• List ways regulatory agencies enforce employment laws.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation, you will meet with Maggie Roberts, one of Icon’s Human Resource lawyers, to discuss a wide range of employment laws. Maggie has been dealing with employment law for over a decade, and the knowledge she has been able to compile in that timeframe is extensive. Today, Maggie will be asking you a series of questions designed to increase your understanding of employment laws. Through her questions and your answers, you will be able to define, apply, and comply with employment laws.

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