Best Practice Recruitment and Selection Training
Overview
Practical training for public sector selection panels. Select the best person for the job and your organisation.
Who should attend? Managers & potential members of government selection panels
Focus: We focus on recruiting people with real capability, performance and the right attitudes. We help you design a faster and more efficient process.
Topics covered in this workshop are:
- Perform the role of chair or panel member with confidence and integrity
- Adopt current best practice & 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 interests
- Assess attitude and cultural fit as well as skills and experience
- Make the right decision
- Deliver constructive post-selection feedback
- Protect against successful appeals
Learn From
- Highly skilled and experienced facilitators
- Our experience with more than 5000 public sector selection panels since 1996
- Up-to-date knowledge of both Queensland and Australian Government recruitment
Costs
$495.00 per person including GST.
Early bird rates available.
Venue & Timing
Workshops are held at the Brisbane CBD venue and runs from 9:00am to approximately 4:30pm.
Morning Tea and Lunch is provided with tea and coffee available during breaks.
For more information, please contact us on 07 3220 1166 or via email to training@meritsolutions.com.au
For upcoming workshop dates, check our
Training Schedule
Any face-to-face workshop will be managed in accordance with current COVID-19 guidelines.
TESTIMONIALS
The activities were well paced and created opportunities for robust discussion & knowledge sharing.
The presentation by the facilitator was engaging, maintained level of interest & energy throughout the day – encouraging interaction of course members.
The energy was maintained well throughout the day. The facilitator is a seasoned practitioner who is very informative and engaging.
The class was interactive and information presented was very informative; I learnt a lot of helpful tips within this class for interviewing/selection.
It was a comfortable environment to ask questions and provide feedback/comment on my own experiences.
Very good level of detail in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process; Presenter has very detailed knowledge and interesting.
TESTIMONIALS
The presentation was done well, showing me how to unpack my skills, how to do the STAR technique, interview skills, info and tips.
The facilitator kept it simple and explained everything so well. The whole course was excellent.
Very practical & logical approach in delivering Interview Skills. Great energy, positive, engaging, motivating & relevant.
The clear messages you articulated in the course really assisted me in conceptualising what it takes to be successful at interview. I gained a great deal of confidence through the practical sessions and through this course I was able to understand what preparation I needed to do to succeed.
TESTIMONIALS
The strategies the facilitator discussed were extremely helpful and insightful. Connecting these strategies to brain functioning was very engaging and well presented.
The course was very tailored to our questions rather than a more structured format. The presenter was very knowledgeable and able to provide relevant examples to suit the audience.
Great workshop, very interesting and informative; the workbook will be very helpful and I will keep handy for time to come! I have enjoyed the day!
Great trainer, very knowledgeable and answers all questions very well; Good activities and content covered well; Great tips and ideas provided.
I enjoyed the explanation of STAR; this has given me a better understanding as to what is more important.
I came away feeling fully armed and equipped to tackle any job application which may take my fancy, and felt your presentation style was warm, friendly and very engaging..
Testimonials – Selection Support
It was a pleasure to work with such a polished professional and your involvement made me feel very comfortable with the process, not to mention the hours of writing you saved me.
You consultant was extremely knowledgeable, very professional, accommodating of our timeframes (which were very constrained), and made the whole process much easier than it would have been otherwise.
Thank you! You assisted greatly in making this appointment process relatively simple and concise – certainly more efficient and effective than some with which I have been involved – and I appreciated it!
Most often people who are good at what they do, whether in business or sport, make difficult things look easy. Certainly that has been my experience working with you.
Your consultant did a wonderful job and her knowledge and assistance was appreciated throughout the process.
Thank you for your assistance. Your expert support throughout the process made it much easier than it might otherwise have been.
Many thanks for your assistance with this process… It has been terrific to achieve this result in such a short timeframe, and I thank you for your part in facilitating this.
TESTIMONIALS – Training
The strategies the facilitator discussed were extremely helpful and insightful. Connecting these strategies to brain functioning was very engaging and well presented.
The course was very tailored to our questions rather than a more structured format. The presenter was very knowledgeable and able to provide relevant examples to suit the audience.
Great workshop, very interesting and informative; the workbook will be very helpful and I will keep handy for time to come! I have enjoyed the day!
Great trainer, very knowledgeable and answers all questions very well; Good activities and content covered well; Great tips and ideas provided.
I enjoyed the explanation of STAR; this has given me a better understanding as to what is more important.
The presentation was done well, showing me how to unpack my skills, how to do the STAR technique, interview skills, info and tips.
The facilitator kept it simple and explained everything so well. The whole course was excellent.
Very practical & logical approach in delivering Interview Skills. Great energy, positive, engaging, motivating & relevant.
The activities were well paced and created opportunities for robust discussion & knowledge sharing.
The presentation by the facilitator was engaging, maintained level of interest & energy throughout the day – encouraging interaction of course members.
The energy was maintained well throughout the day. The facilitator is a seasoned practitioner who is very informative and engaging.
The class was interactive and information presented was very informative; I learnt a lot of helpful tips within this class for interviewing/selection.
It was a comfortable environment to ask questions and provide feedback/comment on my own experiences.
Very good level of detail in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process; Presenter has very detailed knowledge and interesting.
I came away feeling fully armed and equipped to tackle any job application which may take my fancy, and felt your presentation style was warm, friendly and very engaging..
The clear messages you articulated in the course really assisted me in conceptualising what it takes to be successful at interview. I gained a great deal of confidence through the practical sessions and through this course I was able to understand what preparation I needed to do to succeed.
TESTIMONIALS
The strategies the facilitator discussed were extremely helpful and insightful. Connecting these strategies to brain functioning was very engaging and well presented.
The course was very tailored to our questions rather than a more structured format. The presenter was very knowledgeable and able to provide relevant examples to suit the audience.
Great workshop, very interesting and informative; the workbook will be very helpful and I will keep handy for time to come! I have enjoyed the day!
Great trainer, very knowledgeable and answers all questions very well; Good activities and content covered well; Great tips and ideas provided.
I enjoyed the explanation of STAR; this has given me a better understanding as to what is more important.
The presentation was done well, showing me how to unpack my skills, how to do the STAR technique, interview skills, info and tips.
The facilitator kept it simple and explained everything so well. The whole course was excellent.
Very practical & logical approach in delivering Interview Skills. Great energy, positive, engaging, motivating & relevant.
The activities were well paced and created opportunities for robust discussion & knowledge sharing.
The presentation by the facilitator was engaging, maintained level of interest & energy throughout the day – encouraging interaction of course members.
The energy was maintained well throughout the day. The facilitator is a seasoned practitioner who is very informative and engaging.
The class was interactive and information presented was very informative; I learnt a lot of helpful tips within this class for interviewing/selection.
It was a comfortable environment to ask questions and provide feedback/comment on my own experiences.
Very good level of detail in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process; Presenter has very detailed knowledge and interesting.
I came away feeling fully armed and equipped to tackle any job application which may take my fancy, and felt your presentation style was warm, friendly and very engaging..
The clear messages you articulated in the course really assisted me in conceptualising what it takes to be successful at interview. I gained a great deal of confidence through the practical sessions and through this course I was able to understand what preparation I needed to do to succeed.
TESTIMONIALS
The strategies the facilitator discussed were extremely helpful and insightful. Connecting these strategies to brain functioning was very engaging and well presented.
The course was very tailored to our questions rather than a more structured format. The presenter was very knowledgeable and able to provide relevant examples to suit the audience.
Great workshop, very interesting and informative; the workbook will be very helpful and I will keep handy for time to come! I have enjoyed the day!
Great trainer, very knowledgeable and answers all questions very well; Good activities and content covered well; Great tips and ideas provided.
I enjoyed the explanation of STAR; this has given me a better understanding as to what is more important.
I came away feeling fully armed and equipped to tackle any job application which may take my fancy, and felt your presentation style was warm, friendly and very engaging..