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HRM626 : Recruitment and selection

Course Overview

Course Synopsis

This course deals with the staffing function of human resource management in detail. It provides a detailed description about the process of recruitment and selection. It intends to explain the contextual factors that affect the staffing process of an organization. This course helps students to evaluate themes impacting recruitment and selection practices. It elaborates multiple methods and techniques of recruitment and selection that lead an organization towards finding a perfect fit for a job. Finally it helps students to make rational decisions pertaining to hiring a right person at a right place.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Comprehend the rationale of strategic recruitment for organization
  • Recognize the techniques for the use of pre-employment testing
  • Understand the use of employment agencies as a recruitment methods
  • Apply different steps of selection process in real life scenario
  • Evaluate the appropriate techniques of selection i.e. test or interview
  • Understand the need for validation of employee selection procedures
  • Plan, write and ask basic questions in test and interview
  • Appreciate the factors that may contribute in successful selection interviewing
  • Understand the objectives of orienting new employees


Course Calendar

1 Six Steps of Recruitment and Selection Process
2 Human Resource Planning
3 Forecasts in HR Planning

4 Recruitment Process
5 Recruitment Process II
6 Recruitment and Selection

7 Strategic Recruitment
8 Context for R & S
9 Predictions for the future of R&S

10 Recruitment Sources
11 Internal Recruitment Methods
12 Advertising

13 Employment Agencies
14 Electronic Recruitment
15 Electronic Recruitment..... Continued

16 Strategic Selection
17 The Application Form
18 Bio Data and Application Forms

19 Test Validation
20 Employment Interview
21 Components of Interview

22 Stress Interview
23 Interview Preparation
24 Interview Preparation 9

25 Planning Basic Questions 4
26 Competency-based Questions 3
27 Interview Components 5

28 Interview Components 14
29 Interview Components 23
30 Selecting a Vendor

31 Employee Orientation
32 Employee Orientation 14