Recruiting Strategies to Hire the Best Candidate
- Format: Self-paced
- Course Duration: 1 hr 6 mins
- SHRM Professional Development Credits: 1.0
- HRCI General Recertification Credits: 1.0
- Certificate of Completion (after passing quiz)
Recruiting in today’s fast paced, global economy is not the same as it was even five years ago. With constant competition, identifying the right candidate is far more difficult than writing up an ad based on a job description and hiring someone that has most of those skills. And research has shown the high costs of filling a position as well as leaving it open. Developing a clear, deliberate strategy to hire the best candidate instead of “a candidate” has become increasingly important.
In this course, we’ll review best practices in acquiring talent without wasting resources. We’ll focus on what it means to hire for cultural fit and discuss the interview process. Building a strategy to maximize a return on recruiting investments is imperative. Educate and guide your management team by learning how to hire the best and save your organization a great deal of time and money.
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Title: Are Cultural Fit & Diversity Mutually Exclusive?
Module: Interviewing - Art or Science?
Duration: 2:59
Let’s discuss how cultural fit and diversity can coexist and are definitely, not mutually exclusive. Some great HR Pros believe that if you hire for cultural fit, that may cause you to exclude diverse candidates. On the contrary, cultural fit and diversity are complimentary, they are not mutually exclusive.
Cultural fit is based on having the same values and ethics, not on any diversity differences. You must find common ground, that is key. Diverse people can have the same shared work values and ethics. We know that Diversity works because diverse employees contribute uniquely to the synergy of the group. If they have a different idea that fits into the organizational culture and ethics, they help to create new programs or products that will help to grow the company. So diversity is definitely not contrary to cultural fit.
Often in different organizations, you find similar values because of the work. I have two clients that are in home healthcare and they all do the work because they love helping the people that need it, and the employees from both organizations come from all walks of life, race, religion, creed, age, veteran status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, genetics, etc., but they all work where they do, because they feel that they are doing a good thing. They make a difference in people’s lives that would otherwise not be able to get the services they need. These diverse cultures at these organizations are culturally similar, but vastly diverse – so, yes, diversity can be satisfied when hiring for cultural fit!
What do you believe makes the candidate the most qualified? I believe that the candidate with the appropriate skills to begin the position will be best if they also share the same attitudes and values of the organization.
Those are the things that will make them “engage” and then become successful - which will allow them to move the organization forward as well.
Did you ever hire someone in your organization that had the greatest credentials ever for the position, just to find them fitting in the group like a brown shoe and a black Tuxedo? I have seen it happen all too often, usually when the hiring manager doesn’t listen to HR or the outside consultant or recruiter about the best fit.
It is very hard for a stressed manager to pass on a candidate that looks great on paper when they need someone “yesterday”, but in reality, it only sets them back at least 6 months, once they realize that the fit was poor, and they need to separate from this candidate and begin again.
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- Welcome & Agenda
- Course Objectives
- Overview: Skills vs. Cultural Fit
- Overview: Costs for Good & Bad Hires
- Introduction
- Stats: Costs for Open Positions
- Skills Based Hiring
- ROI: Hiring for Cultural Fit
- Drive Engagement: Cultural Fit Recruiting
- Introduction
- Behavorial Interviewing
- Contrary Evidence
- Trusting the "Gut"
- Are Cultural Fit & Diversity Mutually Exclusive?
- Introduction
- Setting a Recruiting Strategy
- Cultural Fit Equals Engaged Employees
- Stats of Engaged Employees vs. Not Engaged
- Recruiting Tips & Trends
- Introduction
- Skills vs. Cultural Fit
- Cultural Fit Drives Engagement
- Basic Tips & Trends in Recruiting
- Conclusion
Instructor: Lois Krause
Lois has held senior HR leadership positions with both domestic and global responsibility, with emphasis in workforce planning (including succession planning); organizational development; employee relations; regulatory compliance (including Affirmative Action); compensation and rewards; benefits (including development of wellness programs); performance management; recruitment; and mergers & acquisitions.
With over 25 years of experience, Lois has served a...