Recruitment and Selection

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Are you hiring the talent you need to build a great team of accountants? This course provides comprehensive guidance on the recruitment process, from the moment the need to hire occurs to extending a formal job offer. Discover how to identify candidates with the precise professional competencies, technical expertise, and personal attributes essential for your team’s success.

£150 +VAT

4 CPD hours

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.
Recruitment and Selection in Accounting

Recruitment and Selection

(21 customer reviews)

£150 +VAT

4 CPD Course

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.
Recruitment and Selection in Accounting

Recruitment and Selection

(21 customer reviews)

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This course will enable you to

  • Create a compelling job advert that defines the accountabilities, standards and competencies related to the position.
  • Find and attract the right candidates for your position and shortlist the applicants ready for interview.
  • Employ different types of questions appropriately, predict the success of candidates, and use assessments and tests effectively.
  • Recognise the best ways to prepare to interview candidates.
  • Understand how to select the right candidate and the process for making a formal job offer.

About the course

In today’s competitive recruitment landscape, securing top accounting and finance talent demands a strategic approach. Most people focus primarily on the interview, but if we are serious about building the best team, we must focus on the whole recruitment process. It all starts with job profiling, then finding and shortlisting the right candidates, so that you can prepare properly for the selection process.

This course provides practical advice across the entire recruitment process, from the moment a vacancy arises through to making a job offer. Discover how to create a strong job description and person specification as well as how to find the ideal people who will fit into your company’s culture.

Contents

Job profiles

Legislation
Getting it right
A job profile
The job description
The person specification
Presenting a job profile
Indirect discrimination

Attracting candidates

Finding suitable candidates
The advert
Administration
Identifying your matches
Shortlisting

Questioning techniques

Planning questions
Question types
Questions to answer
Predicting success
Problem interviewees

Interview process

Advance arrangements
Interview plan
Assessments and testing
Testing times
Listening properly
Supplying information
Second interviews

Candidate selection

Selecting the right person
The one
Making a job offer
Completing the process

Author

Alan Nelson

Alan Nelson

Alan Nelson is the founder of accountingcpd and has a keen interest in economics and in management skills training in the accountancy profession. He has been Chair of ICAEW’s Practice Assurance Committee, and a member of ACCA’s SME Committee and of IFA’s Regulatory Committee. He is currently a member of the Bank of England’s Decision Making Panel.

21 reviews for Recruitment and Selection

  1. Joanne Clough –

    Good sound advice and a great structure to follow. Will definitely refer to it before my next hire.

  2. Anthony Rooney –

  3. Ria Narinesingh –

    Very insightful and good pointers for a process that is required by all companies

  4. Brian Larkin –

    .

  5. Richard Marles –

    very useful course for any hiring manager or interview panel member

  6. anne Marshall –

    excellant, informative and easy to follow course with great tips

  7. David Willder –

    knowledgeable and thoughtfully put together

  8. Nusith Kumaratunga –

    Very comprehensive course

  9. Malcolm Comerford –

    very helpful

  10. Rita Murphy –

    I have found this one to be one of the most enjoyable and satisfying courses. It was very clear and very constructive

  11. Katarzyna Piekarczyk –

  12. Pakiso Mokgophe –

    In case I am 1 of the panel members I will ensure that I follow all the steps of recruiting a new candidate till the final selection stage

  13. Hooi Nee Chew –

    This course gave me a different perspective of how recruitment and selection process can be improved upon.

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  19. Leslie Milne –

    Currently in the process of hiring a key role in my team and want to ensure the company has a good process for a success.

  20. Philip Sloan –

  21. Karen Ka Yi Ng –

    remind me of setting up a structured interview to find the right candidate

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