CANDIDATE SOURCING AND MANAGEMENT

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- 19 June (London)

Duration: One day

Time Scale: 9.00 - 5.30

Cost (excluding VAT):£350 (members) - £590 (non-members)

What’s it all about:

This programme provides delegates with the skills and tools needed to get the best out of their existing database, as well as providing useful tips and techniques for vastly improved candidate attraction and referral rates, including social media, writing betters adverts and building better relationships.

Aims and Objectives

By the end of the course individuals will be able to:

• Realise the potential within their existing database and utilise more efficiently and effectively to achieve faster and more profitable results.
• Understand and utilise various methods of attraction, gaining access to difficult to source candidates.
• Increase referral rates
• Understand the importance of networking, increase opportunities and improve skills 
• Create strategies and referral networks to achieve results
• Recognise and actually utilise the opportunities that social media provides
• Plan and implement a social media campaign, using top tips and techniques
• Write better, more targeted adverts with improved results
• Build a candidate management plan to ensure the information captured is relevant and meaningful
• Uncover the potential of the forgotten database
• Build deeper, longer lasting relationships with candidates for more profitable relationships
• Achieve quicker and better results from web searches

Course Content:

The power of your database

• Understanding your database
• Using the vast amount of information available
• The information you can’t see

Proactive candidate sourcing and attraction

• here do candidates come from and traditional methods of attraction
• Registering candidates the other recruiters can’t
• Getting referrals

Building a strong network

• What is networking and how to do it
• Defining your strategies and targets
• Building an effective referral network

Effective use of social media

• Understanding and using social media effectively
• Building a social media strategy
• Top tricks and shortcuts

Writing great adverts

• What to write and how to write it – getting creative!
• Ensuring a quality response 
• Putting off unwanted applications

Updating and candidate management

• What you must do every day
• Listening to what the candidate is really telling you

Re-living old/placed candidates

• Understanding and using the forgotten database
• Contacting old/dead candidates and rebuilding the relationship

Selling yourself and making a great impression

• Building rapport, develop and enhance the relationship
• Understanding how and why people buy you and using that knowledge 
• Using relationships to build more referrals

X-ray and Boolean searching the web

• The different types of searching available
• Digging deeper into a companies web site
• Top tips and tactics for finding the information you need faster

Target Audience:

This course is focused at resourcers and junior recruitment consultants, however, is appropriate to all levels of consultant and manager.

How learning & understanding will be monitored and assessed during course delivery:

• • Extensive trainer support will be provided to enhance learning application
  • Practical (industry relevant) examples, discussion groups, presentations and a case study is used to improve understanding and practical knowledge.

Encouraging learning application:

• • Delegate briefing pre course with line manager using course overview and personal development plan (PDP) as a template
  • Final exercise on the programme will determine if objectives have been met and will identify intended workplace actions
  • Completion of Personal Development Plan (PDP) and personal action plan with line manager post course