Workforce Planning and Employment: Recruitment Strategies

Overview/Description
This course focuses on job analysis and recruitment strategies. The process of analyzing and documenting job descriptions is an important step in workforce development. HR professionals need to be able to establish key criteria for hiring, retention, and promotion, and understand how to approach recruitment efforts strategically in order to help achieve key organizational objectives. This course will concentrate on these important skills as well as techniques for approaching and securing staffing alternatives, and for internal skills and labor market assessments and analysis. This course is created to help HR professionals preparing for the Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) PHR and SPHR certification examinations. The content in this course is based on the responsibility and knowledge statements of the PHR and SPHR Body of Knowledge of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Target Audience
Human resource professionals who are preparing for the Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) Professional in Human Resources (PHR) or Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification exam

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Workforce Planning and Employment: Recruitment Strategies

identify common methods for conducting a job analysis

identify key competencies of a position

identify the elements required to develop and update job descriptions

identify examples of essential job functions

use key hiring criteria terminology appropriately

identify guidelines for establishing hiring criteria

identify examples of appropriate activities to retain employees

identify key elements of promotional policies

recognize activities performed in each stage of recruitment strategy

recognize examples of staffing alternatives

describe the focus of each element of a labor market assessment