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Thu 28 Nov 2024
13:30 - 15:30

Venue: N/A - MS Teams

Provided by: Learning and Development


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Recruitment Essentials: Appointing the Right Candidate (Academic Appointments)
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Thu 28 Nov 2024

Description


This workshop provides an opportunity for academic staff to understand the recruitment and selection process and how to create the conditions where you can recruit the best candidate and avoid common pitfalls. It includes an overview of the recruitment and selection process and identifies the key principles to ensure practice is fair to all candidates at each stage.

The course is primarily aimed at academic staff involved in making selection decisions for academic roles and those with responsibility for coordinating academic recruitment procedures.

Target audience
Prerequisites

It is recommended that delegates complete the following before attending the session:

Sessions

Number of sessions: 1

# Date Time Venue Trainer
1 Thu 28 Nov   13:30 - 15:30 13:30 - 15:30 N/A - MS Teams Reshmin Haq
Aims
  • to enable you to create the conditions where you can recruit the best candidate
  • to understand the importance of using a fair and transparent recruitment and selection process
  • to recognise the impact of implicit bias and ensure it does not affect selection decisions
  • to understand the shared responsibility of the selection committee to ensure a fair process is followed
Format

The workshop is interactive and encourages discussion around current practice. The learning is sustained by providing an opportunity to plan your course of action to ensure training is applied back in the workplace

Feedback

'This (briefing session) was very enabling … and the process of reflection was very useful. I realised things about previous recruitment experiences that I wouldn’t have realised otherwise'
'Excellent – nice views but discussion interesting enough not to look outside'

Notes

Participants will be asked to read the University's Recruitment Guidance policies before the session

Duration

One session of two hours

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Theme
Recruitment and Selection

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