Best Practice Recruitment and Selection training (Translink)
About this course

This workshop is designed to help participants understand their role as Panel Chair, and to select the right person for the job and organisation in a timely and efficient manner. The combined workshop is designed to assist participants to:

  • Perform the role of panel chair with confidence and integrity
  • Adopt current best practice and flexibility
  • Design and implement an efficient, effective and ethical merit selection process
  • Integrate capability and competency frameworks
  • Apply evidence-based shortlisting techniques
  • Develop great interview questions
  • Manage high quality face to face and virtual interviews
  • Elicit frank referee comment
  • Address issues relating to prior knowledge
  • Manage potential conflicts of interest
  • Assess attitude and cultural fit as well as skills and experience
  • Make the right decision
  • Deliver constructive post-selection feedback
  • Protect against successful appeals
  • Design and implement an effective merit selection process
  • Understand the context and requirements of selection reporting
  • Identify what makes a "good" selection report
  • Refresh skills and processes in compiling reports
  • Respond to complex selection situations 

 There are sessions booked through 2024. Please consult the calendar on L&D SharePoint page.


Course content assistance: Translink Learning and Development