CMP Course Catalogue - Course Outlines

"Recruitment & Selection"

Core Educational Area: Recruitment & Selection
Course type: Academic
Accredited Educational Partner: Centre for Leadership Excellence, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University
Delivery Format: Self study, online testing
Time Required: 40 hours
Cost: $800 - Regular Rate, $750 - PPG Gold Rate, $700 - PPG Platinum Rate; plus textbook
CMP Credit: 1.0
CE Credit: TBA
Languages: English, French (TBA)

COURSE OVERVIEW:
The course is designed to provide you with an introduction to the scientific field of Human Resource Selection and Recruitment, with an underlying main theme that increased objectivity results in better hiring decisions.

Upon successful completion of the course, you will have a solid understanding of how to design and implement a recruitment and selection system that reflects state of the art research in the field of Human Resources. Additionally, you will know what steps to take in order to improve the reliability and validity of existing procedures. Although you might not be directly responsible for the design of selection procedures, you will be able to use the information presented in this course to determine if professionally acceptable standards are being applied to recruitment and selection procedures in which you are involved.

The course material consists of a textbook and a series of power point slides. The course is divided into eight (8) modules that focus on different aspects of recruitment and selection.

We begin with a general introduction to recruitment and selection, discuss the importance of obtaining valid job analysis data, and then focus on identifying and measuring important job related knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics.

As previously indicated, we always emphasize valid and reliable assessment methods and we discuss how you evaluate the effectiveness of the various assessment processes. In conclusion we present information on important legal considerations.