Online Class: Recruitment and Retention Strategies

This recruiting and retention strategies course is designed for professionals who are looking to improve their overall workforce.

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  • 14
    Lessons
  • 20
    Exams &
    Assignments
  • 544
    Students
    have taken this course
  • 5
    Hours
    average time
  • 0.5
    CEUs
 
 

Course Description

Elevate Your Organization: Mastering Recruitment & Retention Strategies

In an ever-evolving corporate landscape, the strength of an organization lies in its most invaluable asset: its people. It's imperative that businesses not only attract the brightest talents but also nurture and retain them. Presenting "Recruiting & Retention Strategies," a comprehensive course tailored for forward-thinking professionals who aspire to elevate their workforce to unparalleled heights.

Course Essence and Offerings:

  1. Foundations of Talent Acquisition: Understand the long-term value and manifold benefits of effective recruitment. Learn the transformative power of handpicking the right candidates, setting your organization on the path to sustainable success.

  2. Building a Magnetic Employee Brand: Dive into the realm of employee branding. Discover how an enticing brand image can pull top-tier talent towards your organization like a magnet.

  3. Strategic Recruitment Alignment: Delve deep into aligning recruitment processes with precise job requirements. Enhance the precision of your talent hunt and ensure you onboard those perfectly suited for the role.

  4. The Pillars of Retention: Grasp why retention isn't just a strategy but a business imperative. Recognize the symbiotic relationship between recruitment and retention and how they are interwoven threads in the tapestry of organizational success.

  5. Retention Mastery: Explore the art of nurturing talent. Identify proactive approaches to foster an environment where employees are motivated to build a lasting career rather than seeking fleeting engagements.

  6. Combatting High Turnover: Decode the reasons behind attrition and master techniques to mitigate high turnover rates. Learn how to foster loyalty, satisfaction, and commitment.

  7. Competitive Edge through Benefits: Delve into leveraging benefits as powerful tools to gain a hiring advantage. Recognize how perks and incentives can become differentiators in a competitive marketplace.

  8. Wellness & Productivity: Explore the transformative potential of corporate wellness programs. Understand their role in boosting morale, enhancing productivity, and fortifying employee allegiance.

  9. Strategizing against Attrition: Equip yourself with tools and strategies to effectively manage and minimize attrition, ensuring continuity and organizational stability.

  10. Navigating Talent Shortages: Prepare your organization to weather the storm of talent crunches. Develop robust strategies to ensure that talent pipelines remain flowing, even in challenging scenarios.

Why This Course Stands Out:

As businesses grow and evolve, the challenges of recruiting and retaining top talent magnify. The "Recruiting & Retention Strategies" course isn't merely an academic endeavor; it's a transformative journey. Through meticulously crafted modules, you'll be armed with strategies to not only attract exceptional talents but also cultivate a culture where they envision long-term growth.

Reputation in the corporate world is priceless. Imagine sculpting an organization where prospective talents yearn to be a part, and existing employees wear their association as a badge of honor. As you progress through this course, you'll unlock the secrets to creating and sustaining such a formidable organizational aura.

In a world teeming with opportunities, ensure that your organization emerges as the beacon for top talent. Commit to mastery in recruitment and retention, and witness your organization soar to unparalleled heights of success.

Course Motivation

With the return of economic stability, or at least less unpredictability, employers may begin to rethink their hiring and team development strategies. Not only do they have fewer employees at their disposal, but also they still may not be sure if they want to hire more people.

Instead, they need to make sure they are hiring the best possible people for their company's needs, now and in the future. All the while, they also need to figure out how to keep the good employees they already have. 

This process needs to begin with a clear understanding of the company's direction and needs from the team. From there, it is clear who the right people are to hire and whom they need to hold onto for as long as their budgets allow.

Proper recruiting and retention strategies will help companies who are interested in doing more, but not spending more. While some of the strategies might require some investment of time and resources, the results far outweigh the costs.

Perhaps the growth of the economy will provide an opportunity for companies to realize that it is not about the bottom line so much as it is about the people whom contribute to the revenue.

The companies that focus on building their teams are the ones that will have the resources to weather any future storm and who will be able to create the best possible foundation for the company's direction.

From the people you want to hire to how you recruit them and retain them, this course is going to help you better understand how your company can plan its workforce and make it as effective as possible.

Though you cannot predict what the economy might do next, you can create a staff, which are ready for everything that might happen and are trained to handle anything that comes their way.

 

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  • Self-Paced
  • Printable Lessons
  • Full HD Video  
  • 6 Months to Complete
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  • PC & Mac Compatible
  • Android & iOS Friendly
  • Accredited CEUs
Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider
 

Course Lessons

Average Lesson Rating:
4.5 / 5 Stars (Average Rating)
"Extraordinarily Helpful"
(481 votes)

Lesson 1. Introduction

With the return of economic stability, or at least less unpredictability, employers may begin to rethink their hiring and team development strategies. 1 Total Points
  • Lesson 1 Video
  • Lesson discussions: Reasons for Taking this Course
  • Complete Assignment: Introduction

Lesson 2. Companies Benefit from Recruiting Talent

Businesses today know that the more they recruit talented people, the more they will receive back for their investment. 12 Total Points
  • Lesson 2 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 2 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 2 Exam

Lesson 3. Employer Branding

Though your company may not be a large organization with endless resources, there are ways you can set yourself apart from the rest of the crowd. 12 Total Points
  • Lesson 3 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 3 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 3 Exam

Lesson 4. Aligning Recruitment to Job Requirements

To ensure the best possible recruitment outcomes, it becomes essential for a company to understand how their job requirements need to align with their talent expectations. 10 Total Points
  • Lesson 4 Video
  • Assessment: Lesson 4 Exam

Lesson 5. Why Retention Matters in any Economy

The retention of valuable employees saves companies money. 12 Total Points
  • Lesson 5 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 5 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 5 Exam

Lesson 6. How Recruitment and Retention Work Together

Sometimes, you need to recruit more than you want to retain, and sometimes you need to retain your staff more than you need to focus on recruitment. 12 Total Points
  • Lesson 6 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 6 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 6 Exam

Lesson 7. Retaining Your Talent Pool

All companies want to hire and to retain the best employees, so it becomes your job to convince people in your office to stick around. 10 Total Points
  • Lesson 7 Video
  • Assessment: Lesson 7 Exam

Lesson 8. Preventing High Turnover Rates

While every persons reasons for leaving a company will differ and vary, the more aware you can become of the potential reasons, the more you can prevent this from happening. 9 Total Points
  • Lesson 8 Video
  • Assessment: Lesson 8 Exam

Lesson 9. Benefits: Maintaining a Competitive Hiring Advantage

While employees might be more interested in the salary that is attached to a job, they are also looking at the benefits which you can offer. 12 Total Points
  • Lesson 9 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 9 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 9 Exam

Lesson 10. Devising an Effective and Desirable Corporate Wellness Program

When you think about your employees, you know they are resources for your success. If they are not taken care of, they are not going to perform the way you need them to perform. 10 Total Points
  • Lesson 10 Video
  • Assessment: Lesson 10 Exam

Lesson 11. Organizational Learning: Why Training Your Team Encourages Loyalty

Organizational learning and training allows team members to feel valuable to their company and it allows everyone to be clear on what to do and how to do it. 11 Total Points
  • Lesson 11 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 11 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 11 Exam

Lesson 12. Managing Employment Attrition in High Performing Teams

Turnover is when someone quits, is fired, or is hired. It is the turning over of the employee base, and it is within the control of the company or the human resources department. 10 Total Points
  • Lesson 12 Video
  • Assessment: Lesson 12 Exam

Lesson 13. Surviving a Talent Crunch

As the market improves, companies will begin to look for talented people to hire for their empty positions. However, it might not be as easy as putting up a hiring sign and wading through the resumes you receive. 10 Total Points
  • Lesson 13 Video
  • Assessment: Lesson 13 Exam

Lesson 14 Conclusion

The more you can learn about the most effective recruitment and retention strategies, the more effective your overall team will be. 41 Total Points
  • Lesson 14 Video
  • Lesson discussions: End of Course Poll; Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course); Course Comments
  • Assessment: The Final Exam
172
Total Course Points
 

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Recognize why and how companies benefit from recruiting talent.
  • Identify employer branding and how this can be used to recruit talent.
  • Summarize techniques for aligning recruitment to job requirements.
  • Summarize why retention matters in any economy.
  • Retaining Your Talent Pool
  • Describe methods for preventing high turnover rates.
  • Summarize ways for maintaining a competitive hiring advantage.
  • Recognize why training your team encourages loyalty.
  • Describe managing employment attrition in high performing teams.
  • Identify ways to survive a talent crunch.
  • Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
 

Additional Course Information

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Course Title: Recruitment and Retention Strategies
Course Number: 8900236
Lessons Rating: 4.5 / 5 Stars (481 votes)
Languages: English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countries
Availability: This course is online and available in all 50 states including: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, and Washington.
Last Updated: October 2023
Course Type: Self-Paced, Online Class
CEU Value: 0.5 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)
CE Accreditation: Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
Grading Policy: Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earned.
Assessment Method: Lesson assignments and review exams
Instructor: Linda Zavadil
Syllabus: View Syllabus
Course Fee: $120.00 U.S. dollars

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  • "I enjoyed the class and the recruitment and retention strategies that I learned." -- Netonya B.

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