Selection and Staffing: The Selection Process

Identify staffing needs and search effectively for the best candidates. Create a long-term, systematic approach to hiring.

Description

This course covers the process of identifying staffing needs, conducting searches, and finding the best candidates. It will introduce a systematic approach that can be applied to most organizations.

Who Should Take This Course?

HR professionals responsible for recruiting, screening, hiring, promoting, and outplacing employees. Line managers, supervisors, and team leaders who are involved in the recruiting process or in making promotion and succession decisions.

Course Format

eCornell takes a problem-based approach to learning, and builds each course around realistic case studies and scenarios. All courses are self-paced, and are facilitated by an eCornell instructor, who leads the online discussions and is available to answer any questions about the course content. This course contains the following modules:

• Do We Need to Hire?
• Identifying the need, and when additional staffing is the best way to fill that need
• Elements of effective job descriptions and job postings
• Diversity as a strategic initiative within the organization
• Internal and external sources for recruiting new employees
• Sources to help diversify your workforce
• Whom Are We Going to Hire?
• Developing effective selection criteria
• Evaluating resumes
• Structuring interviews, and developing effective, non-discriminatory interview questions
• Evaluating candidates with respect to the selection criteria you have established
• Addressing challenges associated with multicultural awareness
• Achieving diversity in the selection process
• Best practices related to giving and checking references
• Laws and legal issues surrounding the selection process
• The use of testing as a predictor of performance

Benefits to the Learner

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe a systematic approach to selection and staffing issues
• Implement and integrate the selection techniques appropriate to your organization
• Evaluate candidates with respect to the selection criteria you have established

Authoring Faculty

Ronald M. Katz, Adjunct Faculty

Sponsoring School

Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Total Learning Time

Approximately 5-6 hours over a period of two weeks.

Certificate Information

This course can be applied toward the following certificates:

• HR: Selection and Staffing
• Human Resources Studies

ACE CREDIT Recommendation

This course contributes to an eCornell Certificate Program that has been recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (CREDIT). Please refer to the Certificate information page for additional details.

HRCI Recertification

This course been approved for six (6) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute. Please contact the Human Resource Certificate Institute (HRCI) for further information about certification or recertification.