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Tue 10 Dec 2024
09:30 - 12:30

Venue: N/A - MS Teams

Provided by: Learning and Development


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Recruitment Essentials: Appointing the Right Candidate (Professional Services Appointments)
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Tue 10 Dec 2024

Description

This workshop provides an opportunity for those recruiting to professional services roles to update and refresh their understanding of the recruitment and selection processes at the University of Cambridge. It includes an overview of the current recruitment and selection process and how to create the conditions where you can recruit the best candidate, avoiding common pitfalls, whilst ensuring practice is fair to all candidates at each stage.

NOTE If you are new to recruitment and selection, it is recommended that you attend the Recruitment and Selection Skills workshop.

Target audience
Prerequisites

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

Sessions

Number of sessions: 1

# Date Time Venue Trainers
1 Tue 10 Dec   09:30 - 12:30 09:30 - 12:30 N/A - MS Teams Hayley A. Osborne,  Andrew Rowland
Aims
  • to provide skills and training 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 identify where responsibilities lie to ensure a fair process is followed
  • to highlight and discuss the application of good practice and useful resources
Format

The workshop is interactive and encourages discussion around current practice. 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 three hours

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Theme
Recruitment and Selection

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