Recruitment Essentials: Appointing the Right Candidate (Professional Services Appointments)

Prerequisites

This new workshop provides an opportunity for professional services and non-academic staff to refresh their understanding of the recruitment and selection processes at the University of Cambridge. It includes an overview of the current recruitment and selection process and how to create the conditions where you can recruit the best candidate, avoiding common pitfalls, whilst ensuring practice is fair to all candidates at each stage.

• University professional services and non-academic staff
• Further details regarding PPD's eligibility criteria are available

It is recommended that delegates who are new to recruitment first attend a Recruitment and Selection Skills 1 day workshop.

This workshop is designed for those participants who have previously attended Recruitment and Selection Skills, or have received previous recruitment training. It is recommended that delegates complete the following before attending the face-to-face training session:

• Equality and Diversity Module online (45 minutes)
• Understanding Unconscious Bias/Implicit Bias online (30 minutes)

Number of sessions: 1

• to provide skills and training to enable you to create the conditions where you can recruit the best candidate
• to understand the importance of using a fair and transparent recruitment and selection process
• to recognise the impact of implicit bias and ensure it does not affect selection decisions
• to identify where responsibilities lie to ensure a fair process is followed
• to highlight and discuss the application of good practice and useful resources

The workshop is interactive and encourages discussion around current practice. Learning is sustained by providing an opportunity to plan your course of action to ensure training is applied back in the workplace

'This (briefing session) was very enabling … and the process of reflection was very useful. I realised things about previous recruitment experiences that I wouldn’t have realised otherwise'

'Excellent – nice views but discussion interesting enough not to look outside'

Participants will be asked to read the University's Recruitment Guidance policies before the session

One session of three hours

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