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OP115

Hiring the Right Faculty for Your Institution

This course shows you how to hire high-quality instructors and orient them to your institution. The skills also apply to hiring staff. It's easy to hire someone to do a job. But it can be difficult to hire the right person. You want instructors who are top notch. They represent your institution and interact with the most people at your campus and particularly your students. This course starts with how to determine exactly what type of people you need as your instructors. Then it shows you how to recruit and hire them. Once hired, you'll learn how to introduce them to the working environment at your institution. By the time you finish this course, you'll be recruiting, hiring, and orienting quality instructors. You'll see results in improved enrollments, student achievement, retention, and completion.

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This course provides you with a lifelong peer-to-peer learning opportunity through a specific Performance Group created within the Career Ed Lounge, a learning community of career education professionals. This allows you to learn and share with your peers at any time you want, even after you complete the course.

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Course Testimonials

"The information received during this course was very valuable and I certainly learned new things that I plan to implement. "

"Great course. It will be very helpful in my job function."

"I really enjoyed this course -- it had a lot of useful information, and made me consider some of the interviewing techniques I use now and ways to improve them. I believe interviewing and recruiting is a serious and difficult process... I am not saying it will get easier with application of the principles taught in this course, but I will say they were valuable, and provided a fine toolset. Thanks for a helpful course."

"Good Stuff! Picked up some GREAT ideas and expanded my general HR knowledge."

"I learned much that will be useful to my organization."

"This course was extremely helpful in helping me refine the recruiting and hiring process that I currently use. I will definitely utilize these techniques."

"This course was extremely informative! I've done hiring for some time and learned quite a few new things that I would like to employ at my organization. Thank you!"

"I like this concept because it is concise and easy to use. I will be using this concepts."

"Excellent course, I really enjoyed reviewing these topics!"

"This was a great course! I think it is a great first step into figuring out how to structure your hiring process. "

Course Objectives

Module 1: Job Analysis

Describe what a job analysis is.
Explain the difference between knowledge, skills, abilities, and other personal characteristics.
Conduct incumbent observations.
Conduct incumbent interviews.
Determine the difference between the deal-breaker and preferred characteristics of your future instructors.

Module 2: Recruitment

Attract the kinds of applicants you want for the job.
Identify and use applicant sources.
Assess your current efforts in order to enhance your current recruitment plan.
Describe the features of a newspaper advertisement that will produce good results.

Module 3: Selection

Select the best potential candidates to interview.
Identify what you can and can't ask the applicant.
Explain the steps in a structured interview.
Evaluate applications.
Examine the process for conducting an interview.
Create a realistic description of the job.
Utilize information gathered from the interview process.
Examine the decision criteria for hiring the right applicant.

Module 4: Job Offer and Orientation

List the pros and cons of email, phone, and in-person offers.
Discuss compensation.
Explain the need to be honest and accurate about the job and work environment.
List what new hires and particularly instructors need to know prior to beginning work.
Explain the orientation process.

Course Structure

Course Format

Can Start Anytime
Self-paced (within course enrollment timeframe)
4 Hours of Activities

Completion Requirements

Study Course Content
Pass ALL Required Quizzes

Digital Badge & Certificate of Completion

4 Hours of Continuing Education
Awarded upon successful completion of course

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Certification Credits

This course provides a Certificate of Completion with 4 hours of continuing education credits.
This course provides credit toward the Certified Higher Education Professional (CHEP) credential in the following specialization area(s):
- CHEP in Campus Operations
This course provides credit toward the continuing education requirements for CHEPs in all areas of specialization.

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