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How to Hire the Right People

How to Hire the Right People

Total video time: 1h 13m
Award-winning instructor: Mariline Guise
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What you’ll learn

Strategically search for candidates
Create an efficient and effective hiring checklist
Attract the right candidates
Develop a recruitment process
Focus on the candidate's experience
Learn the fundamentals of a successful interview
Reduce biases while hiring
Conduct thorough background checks
Find the candidates who fit your company's culture and needs

Skills you’ll gain

Leadership Candidate evaluation

As your company grows, the demand for hiring the right people will always be a topic of conversation. Even if you already have a hiring process in place, there is a good chance it could need a new layer of polish. In this course, certified career coach and talent strategist, Mariline Guise shares how to best establish the right strategy and approach to your hiring process to land the right caliber of people in your organization. Mariline explains how to lay the right foundation in your recruitment process, in order to build strong talent pipelines. She also deep dives into outdated recruiting tactics and presents you with fresh hiring methods. Finally, Mariline shares how these components will close the gap in your recruiting process from inception to landing the right people for the role. After this course, you'll have the components needed to approach your hiring process in a highly effective manner.

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    Hiring the right people Hiring the right people is important for organizational success, but how do you ensure you've got the best strategy? 1m
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    Checklist for hiring Using a checklist when starting the recruitment process will help systematize your hiring process and keep track of your recruiting efforts. 3m
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    The job posting A good posting not only outlines the duties and responsibilities of the job, but also describes how the role fits within the organization. 4m
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    Recruitment process Recruiting the right people carries supreme importance for the continuation of the success of an organization. 4m
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    The ideal candidate Regardless of what type of role you are filling, if you want to hire the right person, you'll need to understand what the right person looks like. 4m
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    Networking connects talent Finding the best people requires a systematic approach of outreach and relationship building that leverages your entire organization. 3m
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    Casting the net To get the best pool of candidates you need to attract both active and passive candidates. 4m
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    Focus past the CV Taking your recruiting beyond the resumé gets you to connect with a candidate beyond a piece of paper. 3m
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    Prescreen candidates Screening applicants is a great way to save both time and money by ensuring that employers don't have to sit through time-consuming interviews with applicants that are neither qualified nor suited to the open position. 4m
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    The candidate experience When you effectively communicate with candidates throughout each step of the recruiting process, they are considerably more likely to have a positive experience with your company. 4m
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    Collaborative approach By altering the hiring process so that the team is involved, you also eliminate some of the biases that hiring managers often have. 5m
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    The three C's Go beyond the standard interview and get out of the norm of asking a lot of boring and overused questions about skills, experience, and how the interviewee has reacted in situations in the past. 3m
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    Aligning core competencies Establishing the right framework for identifying and evaluating candidates during the interview process is an important part of the hiring process. 3m
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    Set clear expectations Establish a clear and straightforward process with the potential candidate during the interview process. 3m
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    The best fit Hiring "the one," the candidate who has the necessary skill, background, and behaviors to contribute positively to the team- will help your organization thrive. 2m
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    Attitude over skills Matching a candidate to your distinctive workplace culture and company's brand will drive your competitive advantage. 3m
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    Avoiding unconscious bias Hiring bias can negatively impact your recruiting practices. 3m
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    Background and references Screening, evaluating, and examining a potential employee's background and references are essential to your hiring process. 4m
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    Hiring the best for your organization Thank you for watching this course! Now you can confidently recruit and hire the best employees that will add value to your team. 2m

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

Awarded upon successful completion of the course.

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Instructor

Mariline Guise

Mariline Guise is a founder of Explore Options Coaching LLC, an executive coaching firm known for providing personalized, one-on-one team leadership coaching to help executives, managers, and individual contributors, and learners accelerate their development, achieve goals and maximize their full potential. background as a seasoned career and leadership coach, along with her experience in corporate and executive recruiting has established her as an expert in her field. Mariline completed her executive coaching training with Emory Executive Education & Psychoanalytic Institute. In addition to completing her M.S. in business and human resource from Webster University and B. S. in family and consumer science from South Carolina State University and McKinsey Academy, A2E Business Fundamentals program.

Talent Management Expert and Freelance Career Consultant Mariline Guise

Mariline Guise

Talent Management Expert and Freelance Career Consultant

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