Planning Your Next Graduate Recruitment Program
Staff Development
Your colleagues will hopefully want to be involved with the process for a number of reasons:
- as a change from the routine of their usual job
- to ensure they get the right recruit for their department
- out of a genuine wish to increase the intellectual stock of the organisation
- for purposes of personal development.
Graduate recruitment is a high-profile activity that provides great variety and experience in more widely applicable management skills. There are many practical skills and abilities which contribute to making graduate recruitment effective and efficient, and these include:
- certification to conduct personality profiles
- professional qualification in recruitment
- the ability to write new exercises
- computer skills and exposure to new systems
- project management skills
- presentation skills
- organisation skills
- risk taking
- managing budgets
- managing suppliers.
In addition to these skills, there are other experiences and abilities that almost anyone involved in recruitment might be exposed to and benefit from, particularly the graduate recruitment manager, and these include:
- representing your organisation
- interviewing skills
- people management expertise
- decision making
- building relationships outside the organisation
- meeting a range of people from within your organisation (including very senior managers)
- developing self-confidence
- being exposed to organisational strategy
- increasing political awareness
- building networks
- selling skills
- exploring and creating opportunities
- attending and managing conferences and workshops
- helping others.
Most of these skills and experiences have a professional application outside the world of recruitment, and even outside the personnel field. Graduate recruitment managers should be aware of the range of development activities to which they, and their staff and colleagues, can be exposed, and you should ensure that every effort is made to provide personal and professional development to those involved. Not only does this increase the skills base in your organisation, but it also makes your job easier the next time round.
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