Developing your Recruitment Strategy

09:00 - Registration and coffee
09:30 - Welcome, introduction and objectives for the day
09:45 - A recruitment strategy: the business case
· What are the business benefits of developing a recruitment strategy?
· Articulating your recruitment strategy: what to consider
· Assessing the market - challenges of recruiting in the current climate
· Linking your recruitment strategy to your business objectives

10:15 - Connecting your recruitment strategy to your organisational values
· What are organisational values and why are they important?
· Why recruit for values?
· Integrating values assessment into your recruitment process
· The relationship between organisational values and your brand

11:00 - Coffee
11:15 - Examining the power of advertising and branding in recruitment
· What is the role of branding in attracting the best talent?
· Job descriptions and person specifications: attracting the right people to your organisation
· Is your brand and advertising strategy delivering results?
· Taking advantage of a diverse talent pool: delivering on your diversity aspirations
· Where are employers most vulnerable? Discussing key problem areas to safeguard your organisation

11:45 - Employment contracts: combining law and strategy
· Employment status: adapting your recruitment strategy to fit the role
· Considering agency staff and temporary workers
· Fixed term and part-time contracts
· Remuneration and pay reviews: building flexibility into the benefit structure
· Flexible working arrangements and homeworkers - adapting your recruitment strategy to support your requirements
· Competition and confidentiality
· Enhancing flexibility: retaining the capacity for change
· Restrictive covenants
· Probationary periods

12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - Linking your recruitment strategy to legal requirements
· Your recruitment policy: best practice
· Avoid discrimination and ensure your organisation embraces diversity: examining race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion and belief and age discrimination
· The Equality Bill and recruitment
· How much must an employee reveal?
· What questions can and can''t you ask?
· How do you decide what''s a reasonable adjustment?
· Medical questionnaires - new case law
· Equal pay: going beyond the law and making it part of your ethos

14:30 - Making your recruitment cycle, procedures and process strategic
· How can you ensure your selection process and procedure supports your recruitment strategy?
· Selection methods - advantages and disadvantages, costs and benefits
· Designing a competency framework for your organisation: linking competencies to strategic objectives
· How do you test for the selected competencies?
· How do you diversity-proof your competencies?
· How do you assess merit? Are your current competencies skewed towards certain groups
· Making up the interview panel: key considerations
· Measuring and monitoring success

15:30 - Coffee
15:45 - What happens next?
· Translating recruitment competencies to performance expectations
· Maximising on the induction process: integration from the start
· Getting the most out of the probationary period

16:30 - End of seminar