Graduate Recruitment and Development

Overview

Course duration: 1 day.

This course is run in partnership with JSB.

This seminar on attracting and retaining graduate talent is designed to enable HR and recruitment professionals meet the challenges of today's graduate market.

You will gain insights into the 'graduates of today' and access tools and techniques to ensure you can identify the best candidates from the high volumes of applications graduate vacancies attract.

You will also investigate how best to retain and develop your graduate talent to improve the return on your investment.

Is it right for me?

This seminar is designed for HR professionals, resourcing specialists, L&D professionals, talent managers, graduate programme managers, and recruitment experts.

What will I learn?

By the end of this seminar you will be able to:

• Attract and retain the best graduate talent by creating a strong employer brand with corresponding HR strategies
• Understand the 'graduates of today' and explore how to engage Generation Y
• Improve retention rates through structured and effective graduate development programmes
• Assess, and maximise, the use of assessment centres, psychometric testing and online recruitment methods
• Discover how to measure the return on your graduate proposition

What will it cover?

Evaluating the changing recruitment market and identifying business needs

• How is the graduate recruitment market changing? Market analysis and current trends

• Why does your company need graduates?

• Deciding how your graduates will fit into existing organisational structures

• What opportunities can you offer prospective candidates?

Tools and techniques for reaching high calibre candidates through effective employer branding

• Understanding employer branding and its role in attracting top talent for competitive advantage

• Building a framework for your company’s brand and supporting HR and people strategies

• Effectively communicating your company values to attract suitable candidates and create brand recognition within the market

• Forming relationships with academic institutions to help widen the talent pool

Designing and implementing a successful recruitment strategy

• Identifying selection criteria and enhancing recruitment methods to maximise applicant diversity

• Designing application forms to critically assess key competencies

• Creating a rigorous screening process: Psychometric tests, assessment centres and interviews

• Choosing the assessors and achieving consistency and objectivity through training

• What happens after the recruitment process? Keeping in touch with successful applicants

Interactive session: Communicating with impact and key presentation skills

• Learn how to portray an impressive company image and strategically answer core candidate questions

Improving retention through structured graduate development programmes

• The induction process: Ensuring graduates understand their role within the organisation and building effective relationships within the first three months

• Evaluating the impact of leadership and management styles on retention rates

• Strategic development plans: Striking the balance between specialisation and diversification and tailoring programmes to help boost retention levels

• Building talent and career progression: Personal development plans, key performance indicators and key skills training

Developing global graduate talent

• The journey from intern to graduate trainee and incorporating talent management into every stage of the recruitment process

• What happens inside the organisation? Mentoring and leadership, career progression and skills development

• The importance of leadership development even at graduate level as a means of preparing for future career moves

• Measuring progress, feedback and performance evaluation

Where to go from here?

• Action planning: Creating a graduate scheme which links in with your business needs

• Measuring HR impact and continuous analysis of the recruitment process

• Incorporating feedback into organisational development plans