Human resource management for beginners training gives new HR professionals and first-time hiring managers a working, competency-based hiring process. Each participant brings a real open role, turns the job description into a competency profile, plans sourcing, writes behavioural questions, runs mock interviews and negotiates an offer. Bodhih runs it as 2 days in person or 4 live virtual sessions.
- Delivered in person at your location or as live virtual sessions
- Designed with the ADDIE model and evaluated for behaviour change
- Offered by Bodhih since 2008 to 2,000+ organisations across 7 regions
Where and how: human resource management for beginners training as an in-person workshop in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Jaipur; as a live online course; or delivered overseas in Dubai, Singapore and across the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Last reviewed by Siddharthan VGJ, Founder · Bodhih Training, Bengaluru
Hiring Smart – Human Resources Management is about mastering the latest tools and techniques for smart hiring, and competency based hiring.
Along with Human Resources Management functions in organization, Bodhih’s workshop also highlights Human Resources Management and personnel specific skills and knowledge
Hiring smart – Human Resources Management workshop covers in detail modules like attracting talent through innovative recruitment sources, engaging in and handling face-to-face interaction, conducting goal-driven interviews and uncovering more in-depth data about the candidate, learning effective and easy interview preparation steps, developing an interviewing strategy and learn methods to open and close an interview, implementing consistent recruiting, screening and hiring procedures, uncovering the areas in which the interviewee needs improvement and has strengths and finally establishing a selection standard for employment
Bodhih’s workshop on Hire Smart – Human Resources Management helps participants with analysing the collected information, studying the body language, effectively following-up after an interview, and pertinent points to keep in mind while conducting an interview.
Hiring skills within the Human Resources Management definition are part of the larger recruitment process
that should include technical skills assessment/tests, psychometric evaluation, group discussions and multiple interviews by peers, line managers, HR and executive officers.
Bodhih’s Hiring smart – Human Resources Management process includes elementary hiring skills of understanding the job requirements by skills, knowledge, competencies and then create tests that actually assess and evaluate the candidates on those parameters.
Bodhih’s Hiring smart – Human Resources Management skills program has been developed to provide learners with a valuable process framework – STAR technique. At Bodhih’s, hiring skills class participants are taken through the paces to understand and practice the STAR framework. This involves preparation to gather all relevant information about a specific capability that the job requires – Situation (Set the background and context), Task (Describe the purpose), Action (The actions were taken) and Result (outcomes achieved)
Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles. This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the session at the Hire Smart – Human Resources Management training – setting context and preparing for a negotiation discussion.
Human Resources Management and development is a journey that needs Human Resources Management skills and knowledge
Through facilitator led presentations and group discussions, participants are familiarised to the various elements (salary, joining time, time-frames, job role, job title etc.) that is used in a talent acquisition negotiation scenario. The negotiation process, styles, and understanding one’s own style is explored in depth with class exercises and feedback.
Hiring Smart – Bodhih’s Human Resources Management workshop, next moves to the session competency-based hiring section. Attention is focussed on the interview format – structure – ways of gathering information – and arriving at summary conclusions. Learners get into role-plays to next appreciate that ‘it is all in the questions. Questions to ask – avoid- deep dive questions are understood through the concepts of open, close ended, probing, leading, and other questioning techniques. The powerful session guides participants in framing competency-based questions that bypasses considerations of gender, personal choices and other bias areas.
At Bodhih, Hire Smart – Human Resources Management course is a popular session that is part of a larger HR skills training suite. The session brings latest research done on successful hiring practices as sourced from successful global recruitment agencies and also management consulting case studies.
The heart of the Hiring smart – Bodhih’s Human Resources Management development training lies in the powerful session – leveraging market intelligence and optimizing pipeline and risk management.
Led through a case study, participants gather relevant industry intelligence, map competition, check for skill availability, factor in attrition rates, make a hiring plan and build in their research for the passive talent pool.
The session progresses through individual reflection and instructor led presentation that finally wraps the workshop with details on how to appreciate and assess various hiring risks such as low-quality hires, increased costs per hire, and the high filtration rate. Next, a brainstorming exercise by the learners, unearths many of the risk mitigation plan initiatives.
How would you gain from Hiring Smart – Human Resources Management course at Bodhih?
Bodhih customizes its Human Resources Management workshop along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.
In addition to the ADDIE model, the Human Resources Management process sessions takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.
The edge in Bodhih’s Hiring smart – Human Resources Management development training comes from
researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise Hiring smart skills – fundamentals by embedding STAR techniques, competency-based hiring and the fundamentals of negotiation.
What is Bodhih’s promise on Hiring smart – Human Resources Management definition workshops?
Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on Human Resources Management in the workplace talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, demonstrating higher mastery over the entire talent acquisition process – attracting appropriate candidate, nurturing pipeline, conducting competency based hiring, managing negotiation and other employee sensitive areas for a seamless experience that saves companies on their bottom-line.
Sample training plan: 2-day hands-on design
This two-day design gives new HR professionals and first-time hiring managers a working hiring process they can use on Monday. Each participant brings one real open role. They turn a vague job description into a competency profile, plan sourcing with market data, write behavioural questions, run and observe mock interviews with briefed candidates, score evidence as a panel and negotiate an offer. They leave with a complete, tested hiring kit for that role.
Participants can define what good looks like for a real role, plan where to find candidates and write questions that surface real evidence.
- 09:30–10:00The hire I still rememberEnergiser
- 10:00–11:00From job description to competency profileBuild sprint
- 11:15–11:45Where talent actually comes fromConcept burst
- 11:45–13:00Market intelligence caseCase clinic
- 13:45–14:45It is all in the questionsSkill drill
- 14:45–15:30Bias trap huntGroup challenge
- 15:45–16:45Sourcing plan for my rolePeer coaching
- 16:45–17:30Day 1 hiring logReflection
Participants can run a structured interview, score evidence fairly as a panel and negotiate an offer that a candidate accepts.
- 09:30–10:00Read the roomEnergiser
- 10:00–11:00Open and close with purposeDemo & practice
- 11:15–12:45Mock interview roundsRole-play
- 12:45–13:00Evidence or opinion?Skill drill
- 13:45–14:30The panel huddleSimulation
- 14:30–15:30Offer negotiationRole-play
- 15:45–16:45Capstone: hire for my roleReal-play
- 16:45–17:30My 90-day hiring planAction planning
Every session’s activity, timings, outputs and materials, plus pre-work, a 90-day reinforcement plan and how impact is measured. Free, emailed to you instantly.
Recommended: 2 days in person (09:30–17:30), or 4 × 3-hour live virtual sessions, plus a 60-day hiring clinic on a live requisition. A sample design: every Bodhih program is customised after a short needs analysis.
How long is Hiring Smart HR training for beginners?
The recommended design is two days in person, from 09:30 to 17:30, followed by a 60-day clinic on a live role. It can also run as four live virtual sessions of three hours each over two weeks. A one-day version suits line managers who mainly interview.
What activities are included in Hiring Smart HR training?
Participants work on a role they are hiring for now. They turn its job description into a competency profile, build a hiring plan from a market case, hunt for bias in an interview transcript, run mock interviews in trios, act as a hiring panel and negotiate an offer with a demanding candidate.
Frequently asked questions
What is human resource management for beginners training?
Who is the Human Resource Management for Beginners program for?
HR, L&D and people managers. Bodhih tailors the examples, case studies and depth to your industry, culture and team level.
How long is the Human Resource Management for Beginners program?
Bodhih recommends 2 days in person (09:30–17:30), or 4 × 3-hour live virtual sessions, plus a 60-day hiring clinic on a live requisition. The length can be shortened or extended after a needs analysis.
Can Human Resource Management for Beginners be delivered online?
Yes. Human Resource Management for Beginners can run in person at your location, as live virtual sessions for distributed or hybrid teams, or as a blended journey that adds self-paced learning on Bodhih.org between sessions.
How is the impact of Human Resource Management for Beginners measured?
Success measures for Human Resource Management for Beginners are agreed with you before design, as part of the ADDIE model. Bodhih can add pre- and post-program assessments on AssessAll and manager check-ins to track behaviour change.