Finding and Keeping the Right People
HR Best Practices
August 3 – September 4

Session Fee: $399

• Retention of good employees is the focus.
• When faced with a need to hire a new employee, retention should always be kept in mind - after all, retention is the best recruitment strategy.
• Smart hiring decisions are more likely to yield successful employees who will be engaged in your organization.
• Learn best practices that you can use right away in your workplace.

Questions addressed in this workshop:

1. What is the cost of finding the right candidate, including interviewing, processing paperwork, training your new hire?
2. What is the cost of hiring the wrong candidate?
3. How do you determine when a new hire is needed?
4. What are the key sources for finding employees?
5. Do you know why employees leave your organization and what is the cost of turnover?
6. Do you have job descriptions?
7. How do you qualify candidates?

What you will know and be able to do:
Participants completing Finding and Keeping the Right People should have acquired the following knowledge, skills, and attitudes about Human Resource Management:

1. Understand the need and have the ability to continuously learn about, and adapt to, ongoing challenges in HR.
2. Speak fluently in the technical language of HR, and be comfortable using this language in other classes and the workplace.
3. Develop a knowledge base of "best practices" in selection and retention of high performance employees. Discuss the role employee engagement plays in attaining business results. Identify tools and resources to conduct employee satisfaction surveys – a key 1st step for retention planning.
4. Design selection and retention processes that meet EEO compliance expectations.
5. Demonstrate the analytical and attitudinal skills that HR professionals need to effectively guide their organizations through the maze of fairness and compliance requirements. Understand and educate the organization on the importance of using multiple resources when making employment related decisions - to obtain objective and relevant information about people.

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