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COMING SOON:
Lean Management for Human Resource Teams

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Vanguard Staffing Best Practices: Effective, Low-cost Recruiting and Selection for Quality Personnel
(format: full-day, in-house or public workshop)

"Should save at least $70,000 on next year's advertising budget… and an additional $25,000 which will help fund relocation costs."
---- Employment Manager, workshop evaluation form.

Unlike any recruiting workshop you have ever taken! You will unearth a goldmine of practical, immediately useable ideas and techniques for recruiting the best candidates at the lowest possible cost. You will see how to make better use of time and budget. You will uncover key information sources and techniques that will make your department shine as you build workforce diversity. You will learn little-known tricks-of-the-trade used by the nation's best recruiters. Approximately 50% of the workshop is devoted to creative candidate sourcing! Participants rave about the expert guidance, sparkling group interaction, and insightful reference materials. Both experienced and new recruiters benefit greatly from this development session. Participants receive a well-organized manual with step-by-step procedures, sample dialogues, forms and reports.

Workshop summary
  1. Targeting customer needs
    1. Hiring managers: Four key questions to jump start the search
    2. Candidates: how to unlock a candidate's hot buttons

  2. Identifying best candidate sources
    1. Calculating costs per hire
    2. Tracking most effective sources

  3. Six ways to improve your recruitment information system
  4. Creative candidate sourcing
    1. Six ways to improve employee referral systems
    2. Boosting results from Internet sources
    3. Rarely used low-cost sources
    4. Duplicating star candidates
    5. Techniques from top affirmative action recruiters
    6. Tips for reducing advertising, improving college recruiting, improving results from job fairs, and how to tap the military as a hiring source.
    7. Reducing use of agency and recruiting firms

  5. Realistic job previews, the key to longer tenure
  6. Behavior-based interviewing, a powerful predictor of future job success
    1. Triple accuracy of predicting candidates on-the-job performance
    2. Three-step procedure for creating the questioning plan

  7. Overcoming resistance in checking references
    1. How to create the path of least resistance
    2. A model introduction that works
    3. Avoiding common pitfalls

 
For more information call:
(641) 472 4574  
Email:
info@vanguardresourcegroup.com