Vital Skills: Recruitment & Selection (London)

9.30am-12.30pm, Tuesday 15th March 2011
NCVO Regent's Warf, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL

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How do you present the work of your project in a way that appeals to volunteers and how do you know you’ve selected people that can effectively perform the role of befriender?

"A befriending project is only as good as its volunteers!"
—Common Ground Meeting Notes

This half day of training will give you an opportunity to:

  • Look at and learn from successful recruitment campaigns
  • Draft a volunteer role description and personal spec
  • Define the work that your project does
  • Design an advert
  • Plan a campaign
  • Learn and practice interview and selection techniques
  • Provide feedback to unsuccessful candidates.

Previous participants said:

"This session has helped me to plan my recruitment campaign and make sure I’ve got all the bases covered"

"This was a well organised course which provided good supporting materials. Excellent!"

"It gave me a clear indication of how to go about these aspects of my work, it will help me with ongoing recruitment, designing publicity & has made me aware of good interview techniques."

Cost

£42.50 per delegate for members (£52 for non-members). Alternatively, members can book all nine sessions of Vital Skills in Befriending for £345 (£370 in London). When booking the nine-course package, use the discount code 'v1tal' at checkout to obtain your discount.

Members book online – Login | Join Now
We also accept training course bookings for non-members. If you would like to book a place on this course, please email admin@befriending.co.uk.