Recruiting and Selecting Volunteers (1/2 day)

This workshop is similar to the one-day workshop Recruiting, Inducting and Managing Volunteers, but concentrates on the recruitment and selection of volunteers and covers these areas in greater depth. (Note: This workshop can also be conducted and a customised one-day workshop.)

Aim

To familiarise participants with simple and effective practices and processes associated with the recruitment and selection of volunteers, and introduce new concepts in these areas.

Topics include:

• The profile of today’s volunteers
• Assessing your organisations internal and external environment, to identify its “selling” points to volunteers
• Identifying your organisations requirements for volunteers
• Where and how to source volunteers
• Specifying your organisations job requirements and expectations – the Position Description
• Understanding the recruitment and selection processes
• How and where to advertise
• Effective selection interviewing – How good are you?
• Assessing your applicants
• Accommodating “potential”
• Saying “No”
• Identifying the needs and motivations of the applicants – Will your organisation and the position be able to satisfy them?
• Review – the importance of continuous improvement

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