Recruitment and Retention Masterclass

In response to the challenges that the pandemic and hybrid working has brought about for both employers and workers, 4 experts in their fields of recruitment and retention are offering you the opportunity to learn new ways of thinking about recruitment, increasing diversity and retaining new recruits.

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This course is in person and runs over 2 full days. It is facilitated jointly by 4 recruitment experts, who will each lead a half-day session in their speciality.

This course is aimed at all individuals who support recruitment, selection, and retention functions within their organisation. It will provide participants with an in depth understanding of current challenges within the recruitment sphere, as well as support to identify practical ways of improving their recruitment and retention methods.

Day 1 - Recruitment Reimagined

For many recruiters, there has never been as much turbulence in the job market as we have experienced in the last few years. Economic uncertainty, workforce holes caused by Brexit and the pandemic and candidate’s expectations of what they want from work have rendered many recruitment processes no longer fit for purpose.

Many recruiters and HR managers say it’s now harder to know what types of people to target whilst 51% of workers in our recent survey are finding it harder to know what employers want. Four in ten are finding it difficult to find job roles that suit their skills.

This day’s masterclass session invites you to be courageous, creative and curious. We rethink who we need to hire, how we attract and select them and the mindset we need to stretch the boundaries to be imaginative about what is possible.

 

Overview

We encourage you to bring your current recruitment challenges and will focus on the specific requirements of the group. Our team are experts in diversity and inclusion, creative recruitment and language and behaviour in the selection process. They will be discussing whether the candidates you think you want are what you really need, exploring different routes the recruitment journey could take and evaluating traditional versus effective recruitment and selection processes.

Outcomes

  • You will leave more confident about experimenting with and adopting new approaches to recruiting

  • Have a better sense of what all the stakeholders in the recruitment process think, feel and need to do to be effective

  • Have the opportunity to share ideas, work through your situation and build a network of people to collaborate with in future

  • Have some practical actions to take away

Content

Sections

Content

Make it lean - workforce planning

 

Deconstructing your recruitment needs

Reimagining how the job can be done

Designing for diversity, equity and Inclusion

Make it human - moving beyond keywords and tick box processes

 

Increase self-awareness: conditioned thinking, biases and blind spots

Getting the balance right between speedy processes and diverse needs

Aligning all stakeholders in the process

Make it smart - selection

Expanding selection options to discover hidden talents and transferable skills - what do we need to do to get candidates up to speed?

The power of diverse panels of selectors: what do they need to make informed decisions

Recruit to retain using deep listening and observation skills

 

Day 2 - Retention from Day Zero onwards

The point when you are looking to retain workers is starting earlier.  Much earlier.  Like when they say ‘yes’ to the employment offer: Day Zero.  Are you finding that this early onboarding is an unexpected new part of your job?  Many other recruiters or HR managers certainly are too.   One in three of the recruiters in our network have been reporting attrition before new recruits have even started, caused by counter offers and competitive offers elsewhere.  At the same time, there’s a worn-out workforce who are looking at inflation eating away at their pay and curious about what deals you’re striking with new recruits. 

The second day of this masterclass will look at how to be smart at keeping people, right from onboarding through to career progression in the current climate.  

 

Overview

We encourage you to bring your current retention challenges and will focus on the specific requirements of the group. Our team are experts in language and behaviour during the selection and retention process and work and behaviour inside your organisation. They will be discussing early onboarding, avoiding burnout in the workforce and retaining people in the current climate.

 

Outcomes

  • You will gain a better sense of what is currently ‘normal’ for local companies in terms of onboarding and retention 

  • Have the opportunity to share some ideas and work through your situation 

  • Have some actions to take away 

 

Content

Sections

Content

Onboarding

 

Building or extending your socialisation process

Induction into a hybrid workplace

Getting new recruits ‘up to speed’

Employee burnout

 

Support for current employees 

Handling the changing psychological contract with work

Supporting different employee groups

Retention

 

Avoiding becoming a resourcing sieve with as many people leaving as are joining

Retention and workforce development in a hybrid world

 

The Experts

Jo Stansfield is Founder of Inclusioneering, a social enterprise offering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultancy in the technology and engineering domains.  Jo began her career as an engineer, developing enterprise software for global industry. Having pivoted her focus to human dimensions of engineering, Jo now works as a Business Psychologist. She brings deep understanding of the engineering culture, and lived experience as a woman within it, to her work.

Kelly Drewery is a Business Psychologist and Director of Talent Glue. Kelly has been a Business Psychologist for more than 20 years, working with a variety of well-known brand name employers across many industry sectors. She established her Cambridge based consultancy, Talent Glue, ten years ago and gets involved in all things to do with organisational behaviour.

Katherine Wiid supports workers and employers with recruitment and retention. She provides people managers with skills, self-awareness, and a sounding board to become confident recruiters and motivators of teams. Katherine’s extensive recruitment and behavioural experience ensures that her clients are in sync with how people’s minds work.

Sarah Stones is a Recruiter, Motivation Specialist and a Coach who is passionate about helping people to shine.  Sarah combines her 20 years of HR expertise and specialist knowledge of motivation and positive psychology with a practical, solutions focussed approach to work with organisations to support them to recruit, manage and retain engaged and motivated staff. 

 

Course Costs

 

In person

Duration

 2 days
Time 10am - 5pm

Member cost pp

 £835+VAT

Non-member cost pp

 £1252.50+VAT

 

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