Successful Recruitment and Induction

Getting the right people in the right seats in a workplace is absolutely key to its success. But so often organisations get it wrong. How do you recruit new members of staff? Are you struggling to find and hire the best candidates?

At Happy, we have developed a different approach to recruitment. Our ethos is all about ‘hire for attitude, train for skill’. In this one-day Live Online workshop, we will share with you Happy’s method of recruiting staff and how to create job descriptions that accurately reflect what’s needed to make sure you get it right first time.

Course Overview

Bringing the right people into your team is one of the most important things you do as a manager or leader. But recruiting well takes more than just writing a job description or running an interview.

In this course, you’ll explore how to recruit with clarity, inclusivity and purpose—and how to make the first few weeks of someone’s role feel welcoming and structured. You’ll leave with a practical framework to improve both your hiring and your onboarding experience.

Why take this course?

  • Design recruitment processes that are inclusive, fair and aligned with your values
  • Learn how to write role profiles and interview questions that focus on behaviours, not just qualifications
  • Build a better candidate experience—from application to offer
  • Create an induction process that supports confidence and connection
  • Avoid common recruitment mistakes and improve long-term retention

Who is this course for

This course is ideal for:

  • Line managers and team leaders involved in recruitment
  • HR professionals or internal recruiters
  • Anyone onboarding new starters into their team or organisation

Duration

1 day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online or Classroom

Certificate

1 Certification

Experience

Open to all

What you will learn

  • Define the key behaviours and values you’re recruiting for
  • Structure interviews that are inclusive, clear and consistent
  • Make confident, collaborative hiring decisions
  • Design an induction that helps people feel welcome and purposeful
  • Support long-term engagement from the very first day

Curriculum & Key Themes Covered

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Themes covered

  • Establish what enables people to work at their best
  • Understand the difference between eligibility and suitability
  • Get it right first time – understand why ending probation is a last resort
  • Hire for attitude and train for skill
  • Create job descriptions that reflect what’s needed – the behavioural requirements as well as the key skills
  • Create a fantastic range of exercises to really test your applicants’ skills against their suitability for the job
  • Improve your questioning and coaching skills to gain insight into your applicants
  • Establish effective feedback mechanisms to your applicants, so that even unsuccessful applicants are left feeling positive
  • Understand the value of a successful induction and what is needed to set up your new recruits’ to succeed
  • Write, agree and review behavioural objectives in and beyond induction, and learn why these are as important as SMART objectives and how to do it well
  • Your personal action plan

Ready to take the next step?

We are here to help!

This course is only available as a one-to-one or private group booking.

For pricing and availability, send us a message using the form, leave us a message on 020 7375 7300, or speak to an Account Manager straight away using our Live Chat service in the bottom right of your screen!

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Looking for Private Group Training?

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Why Choose happy?

Because Happiness Works

Joy leads to success, every time,

Expert-Led & Hands-On

Our award-winning training isn’t just theoretical. It’s packed with practical tools you can use straight away.

B Corp Certified & Proud

We don’t just talk about impact — we live it. As a B Corp, we’re committed to making workplaces better for everyone.

Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

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