This one-day course, facilitated by an HR and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion specialist, equips participants with the knowledge and skills to design and implement recruitment processes that attract, recruit, and retain diverse talent.
The Importance of Inclusive Recruitment and Selection Training
Inclusive recruitment practices enable organisations to attract diverse talent and potentially help with skills shortages. To appoint the best candidates, those responsible for developing recruitment strategies and making hiring decisions must ensure that their processes are accessible, structured, transparent and fair to all applicants. Recognising and mitigating unconscious bias is paramount to avoid discrimination and poor judgement in recruitment decisions.
Job applicants expect employers to demonstrate a clear commitment to inclusion and are attracted to work in psychologically safe workplaces where everyone feels they belong and differences are valued. A more diverse workforce helps organisations thrive and grow as it improves decision-making, innovation, retention, and company reputation. Making inclusive recruitment a priority and embedding Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) as a core component of any talent acquisition strategy is a win-win for any organisation.
What does that mean in practice when you have a vacancy to fill?
This practical and highly interactive one-day course equips participants with the skills and knowledge to consider ED&I at every stage of the recruitment process. From job description to onboarding, participants will gain insight into how they can change their existing practices to ensure an inclusive approach to recruitment and selection.
Key benefits of attending this course
Participants will learn:
- The importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in talent acquisition
- The key benefits of a diverse workforce
- The legal framework: The Equality Act 2010
- The impact of unconscious bias and discrimination and how to manage bias
- How ED&I impacts job descriptions, person specifications and adverts
- How to structure job descriptions and person specifications
- How where you advertise can impact the diversity of your applicants
- How to support disability and make reasonable adjustments
- Competency-based interviewing techniques and structuring the interview
- Objective decision-making, giving feedback and successful onboarding
Who would benefit from attending this course?
This course would be valuable to anyone involved in recruitment and selection, from HR professionals responsible for talent acquisition strategies to recruiting managers and anyone involved in the advertising, interviewing, and onboarding of new staff.
The course content and capacity can be customised for individuality and to meet organisations’ specific learning criteria. Consultancy in inclusive recruitment and selection is also an option, either as a standalone service or with training.
Course Overview
This course is facilitated in a relaxed, informal manner, with opportunities for discussion, sharing of experiences, and best practices. The facilitator is experienced in creating a safe and inclusive learning environment where participants feel at ease engaging in practical group exercises.
The course content can be tailored to include references to your organisation’s current approach to recruitment and selection.
The course content includes:
Why does Equality, Diversity and Inclusion matter?
- Your organisation’s approach to diversity in all job roles
- The impact of a diverse workforce on overall business effectiveness
- Who are you missing and what could you do differently?
- Ensuring that you operate in compliance with the law
Legislation
- The Equality Act 2010, discrimination, reasonable adjustments
- Understanding unconscious bias and how good candidates can inadvertently be lost
- The legal framework – a quiz-based review of the legislation in practice
- Right to Work checks and compliance
- Data Protection and GDPR compliance
Role design, job advert and criteria for selection
- How to design inclusive job descriptions, person specifications and adverts to attract a diverse range of talent
- Assessment criteria and how to test them at each stage of the application process
Interview process
- Competency-based interviewing – ensuring candidates have the knowledge, skills and behaviour at the level specified and required for the role
- Interview structure – interview professionally, placing your candidate at the heart of the process
- Video review, question practice and style and tone of the interview to ensure that interviews are effective and are conducted in a positive and supportive manner, placing candidates at the heart of the process
Appointment decisions and next steps
- Decision-making and record-keeping – effective and fair processes
- Feedback – what makes good feedback, and why should you offer it
- Onboarding – ensuring a successful start, what should the first weeks look like?
Action planning
- What will you do differently in your approach to talent acquisition?
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