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Tool Kit - Competency-Based Recruitment Strategies (PDF)

Many human services agencies have a difficult time recruiting top-quality applicants for the very demanding jobs they are trying to fill. Baby-boomer driven retirements coupled with a shrinking labor supply suggest that the recruitment challenge will only get tougher. This Tool Kit will help you develop a gap-closing recruitment strategy to better attract more applicants and to build a pool of high-quality applicants.

 

Realistic Job Previews

 

A Realistic Job Preview (RJP) is a recruiting tool designed to reduce early turnover. (We define early turnover as job departures within the first year after hire.) A RJP communicates to applicants the desirable and undesirable aspects of a job before they accept a job offer.

 

RJPs can come in many formats, including oral presentations, opportunities for
applicants to “job shadow,” and pamphlets or brochures.

 

Tool Kit - How to Develop a Realistic Job Preview Video (PDF): This comprehensive report details how to develop a job preview video and includeshands-on tools to help with production.

 

Case Study - the Michigan Department of Human Services (PDF): An in-depth review of one agency's experience implementing a Realistic Job Preview DVD.

 

 

Checklist of Steps to Producing a Realistic Job Preview Video:

 

Phase I – Preparedness
Phase II – Planning
  • Establish a planning group with key stakeholders
  • Develop a budget (Microsoft Excel file)
  • Develop Content
  • Identify Format
Phase III – Production
Phase IV – Implementation
  • Pre Application
  • Pre Interview
Phase V – Evaluation
  • Develop metrics to determine candidate self-selection out of process
  • Identify costs of turnover
  • Contrast costs of pre self-selection to turnover in first year of RJP implementation

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