Recruitment & Placement options

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  1. Human Resource Planning
    • What is Human Resource Planning?
    • Forecasting the Demand for Labor
    • The Internal and External Supply of Labor
    • Planning for shortages and surpluses
    • Succession Planning
  2. Recruitment
    • What is Recruitment
    • The Recruitment Strategy
    1. The recruitment Goals
      • Large or small pool of applicants, well qualified persons , good performers ,applicants who can project image of the company
    2. The Recruitment Philosophy
      • Whether to promote largely from within or to recruit from outside for vacancies of all levels
      • Is the emphasis on just filling vacancies or hiring for long term career
      • Is emphasis on having a diverse workforce
      • Are applicants viewed as commodities to be purchased or as customers to be won over
    3. Internal or External Sources of Recruitment
      • Advantages of Internal Sources
      • Disadvantages of Internal Sources
      • Advantages of External Recruiting
      • Disadvantages of External Recruiting
    4. Countercyclical Hiring
    5. Alternatives to Traditional Recruitment
    6. Internal Recruitment Process
    7. The Resume Tracking System
    8. External Recruitment Methods
      • Informal
      • Formal
    9. External Recruitment Process

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  • The Interviews
    • The Reliability of the Interview
    • Validating the Interview
      • Similarity Error
      • Contrasting Error
      • Overweighting Negative Information
      • Race, Sex and Appearance Bias
      • First Impression Error
      • The Halo Error/Effect
      • Non Verbal Factors
      • Faulty Listening and Memory
      • Differences between Interviewers
    • Types of Interviews
      • Unstructured Interview
      • Semi structured
      • Structured
      • Panel
    • Types of Interview Questions
    • Testing potential candidates
      • Work sample or trainability tests
      • Personality tests
      • Personality Inventories
      • Emotional Intelligence tests
      • Integrity Test
      • Etc
  • The Selection Process
    • Benefits of Careful and Strategic Selection
    • The Process
  • Reference and Background Check
    • Obtaining Reference Information
    • Obtaining Background Information
    • Validating and the legal requirements of Reference Information
  • New Employee Orientation
    • What is an new employee orientation
    • The importance of new employee orientation
    • Documents, presentation to be accompanied to new employee orientation