How To Find and Keep The Best People For Your Business

This workshop is designed for organisations who have identified high staff turnover, a shortage of skilled people, recruitment and selection issues as having a major impact on their business.

The optional follow-up on-site visit is highly recommended to ensure that the learning is effectively transferred to the workplace

Duration:  One half day, plus optional on-site visit

Target Audience:  General managers and operators of businesses that employ team leaders. Supervisors, junior managers or key staff with specialist skills who wish to improve their overall approach to recruiting.

Objectives:  By the end of the workshop delegates will be able to:

  • produce effective job designs and advertisements
  • utilise tips and techniques adopted by successful organisations
  • improve their recruitment processes
  • demonstrate an improvement in process
  • produce a plan for conducting structured interviews
  • look forward to a follow-up meeting to check their practices and demonstrate improvement 

Content: The workshop session will include:

  • discussion of key staffing issues including demographic change
  • what can be learned from successful organisations
  • introduction to the process
  • job design advertising and application form design
  • recruitment and selection methods including structured interview
  • job offer including conditional contracts and reference uptake 

Date:   14 March 2006 

Time: 9.00 am - 1.00 pm

Venue:  Aros, Portree

Cost: £25