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Berkeley Global
Develop in-depth employee-selection interviewing skills, and learn about the human resources function of selecting and placing employment candidates. Through extensive in-class practice and mock interviews, you learn how to identify and define selection standards, develop probing primary and secondary interview questions, and evaluate candidates. Topics include systematic approaches to finding candidates, standardizing selection interviews and making hiring decisions. Recruiters who manage multiple openings can also benefit from this course.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
- Understand the employment function and the laws, rules and regulations that impact hiring and maintaining employees
- Gain skills to interview candidates using a mix of competency-related, open-ended, hypothetical, probing and close-ended questions
- Identify the positives and negatives of traditional and innovative recruitment strategies
- Learn how EEO and affirmative-action legislation affect the recruitment and selection process
- Hone effective interviewing techniques
- Learn the uses and limitations of pre-employment and employment testing and reference checking
- Develop a new-employee orientation program
What You Learn
- Recruitment challenges and opportunities
- Types of interviews
- Legal constraints on recruiting and selection
- Federal and California legislation impacting recruiting and selection
- Employment at Will, negligent hiring and negligent retention
- Legal recordkeeping requirements associated with recruiting practices
- EEO and Affirmative Action concepts
- Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP)
- Job specifications and descriptions
- Understanding perception
- When to ask competency-based questions
- Interview formats
- Employee orientation programs
- Pre-employment and employment testing
- Making the selection
How You Learn
- Lectures
- Discussions
- In-class practices
- Exercises
- Mock interviews
Is This Course Right for Me?
This course is intended for new-to-HR students and current HR professionals who want to better understand the recruitment and hiring process.
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Spring enrollment opens on October 17!