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University of Minnesota

Recruiting, Hiring, and Onboarding Employees

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Overview

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Finding and hiring the right people is often cited as the number one concern of businesses today. It seems we are all competing for the best and brightest workers. As you will see in our time together in the second course, a critical component of the People Manager Value Proposition is to hire talented people who enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals. This course is an introduction into the topic of recruitment, selection and onboarding.

At the outset of the course we will explore the importance of linking recruitment goals with overall company strategy. We then look at a number of options to recruit and select employees both effectively and legally. Throughout the course we will examine current issues in talent acquisition, such as how companies are now leveraging social media and hiring analytics to ensure better quality hires.

At the conclusion of the course, we look at how to onboard employees to promote employee commitment and engagement.

Syllabus

  • Workforce Planning: Aligning Recruitment and Selection with Company Strategy
    • Let's consider the importance of workforce planning. A company can have all the right things in place: strong financial resources, a functioning supply chain, and the latest technology. But without talented people, it cannot achieve its goals. This is where workforce planning comes in. Workforce planning aims to find the right people, at the right time, with the right skills. But we first must build our business acumen, and our awareness of our company's unique business environment. HR professionals, as key business partners, must deeply understand the internal/external challenges and competitive landscape in which an organization operates in order to effectively execute any people management program. We begin this unit identifying the importance of aligning recruitment and selection practices (or what we often call talent acquisition) with overall company strategy. In the second and third part of this unit, we examine two key areas of talent acquisition: recruitment, selection. We conclude this module with a look at making sure we have jobs in place that are well-designed, motivating, and rewarding through the use of job design and job analysis.
  • Recruitment: Finding the Best Candidates
    • In this module, we take a look at the macro-level strategic considerations in recruiting. We also will examine what makes an effective recruiter, along with where to find prospective employees. Current issues in recruiting are discussed, such as using social media and mobile technology. We then take time to focus on important legal and ethical issues in recruiting, and we wrap up this module with a look at recruitment from a global perspective.
  • Selection: Choosing the Best Candidates
    • In this module, we examine the selection process. Like the first two modules, we start from the big picture - what is selection and how do we tie it to strategic goals? We then explore the important legal considerations (U.S. laws) and other best practices in selection, such as avoiding biases and conducting background checks. Next we will see a number of different selection tools you can use to make a better hiring decisions. Lastly, we wrap up the third module by creating and presenting offers to candidates, and analyzing our hiring process for effectiveness.
  • Special Topic: Onboarding
    • In module four we will be talking about bringing on your new hire. Having just recruited and hired a new employee, you want to be sure that new employee gets up to speed as quickly as possible and becomes an engaged and excited member of your team. Module four will talk about how to work through a great onboarding process and why that matters to an employee's engagement with the organization.

Taught by

Stacy Doepner-Hove and Amy Falink

Reviews

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  • Anonymous
    This course wasn't as good as the first one in the HR specialization, Preparing to Manage Human Resources. The quality of the videos was poor, with the introductions being almost impossible to hear and then the following fragment very loud. The vide…
  • Anonymous
    Took this course and although Amy seems like a very pleasant person, the course doesn't quite live up to the expectations: 1. There's a lot of general theory but very little practical cases how to actually use it and a lot of information is very va…
  • Anonymous
    This outstanding course includes 4 modules taught by 2 highly-qualified instructors. Amy teaches the first 3 modules on recruiting, selecting, and hiring. She provides interesting slides, practical suggestions from her own work experience, and resea…
  • Amazing course on recruiting, hiring and onboarding employees. It deals with aligning recruitment and selection with the strategy of the organization, finding best candidates, choosing best candidates, and how to onboard them. The assignment on onboarding is helpful to sharpen knowledge. I must recommend this course for HR Managers.
  • Anonymous
    The course is value packed and it was broken down in a way that even a newbie in HR will understand how to go about recruiting, hiring and onboarding. Kudos to the lecturers.

    I have no regret taking the course.
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  • Anonymous
    Both lecturers seemed nice, friendly and informative. I enjoyed taking it and learning from each one of them, as they were able to pass on their experiences into very clear concepts
  • Anonymous
    This course is really complement and I really love to learn completely. This course made my day to be meaningful in online-learning. Thank you Coursera and University of Minnesota.
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