Job Design, Recruitment, Selection and Orientation

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Job Design, Recruitment, Selection and Orientation

• January 30, 2001
• Michael Devlin

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Session Agenda

• Session Objectives Overview
• Introductions
• Job Design Recruitment Overview Exercises
• Break
• Selection Orientation Overview Exercises
• Summary and Brief Evaluation

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Session Objectives

• Use a job description to create
• an assessment form
• Examine recruitment, selection and orientation
  strategies

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Introductions

• Your name
• Where you are from and what you do
• Experience or question you have as it relates to
  todays topic

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Uses of a Job Description

• Hiring
• Training
• Orientation
• Supervision
• Promotion and remuneration
• Performance evaluation
• Workplace coordination

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Critical Components of a Job Description

• Title
• Date of posting
• Supervisory reporting
• Job summary
• Job responsibilities
• Required experience/qualifications

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Essential Functions of Staffing

• Selection
• Orientation
• Staff Development

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Essentials for Interview Planning

• Job description for all involved
• Logistics of interview
• Assessment criteria and scoring
• Roles for each interviewer
• Format and decision-making process for interview
• Obtain references

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Other Selection Tools

• Resumes (some of the best fiction writing in the
  world is in the form of resumes.)
• Credentialing (licensure, certification or
  registration)
• Pre-employment tests (guest lecture, in-box
  exercise, etc.)

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Time for a break
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Orientation is needed for

• New staff
• Existing staff when introducing new services
• When re-organizing

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What should happen during orientation?

• Introduce and tour the facilities
• Discuss org. policies and procedures (personnel
  manual)
• Discuss org./dept. mission, structure and culture
• Enable new employee to start proving him/herself
  as soon as possible

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Job Analysis

• Should the job exist in its present form?
• If so, what is the main purpose of it?
• What new or special skills are needed to perform
  this job in order to handle key issues?

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Quotes for the Day

• Its a lot easier to hire the right people to
  begin with than to try to fix them later.
• Cast a wide net and carefully sift through what
  you catch in it.

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Brief Evaluation

• What did you like most about todays session?
• What do you wish this session covered?
• Thanks for participating!