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Here is another email based course in the HR field, or for people in small businesses who have to do their own hiring. Of course there is no way, in advance, to tell if this course will fill your needs, but then again, it is free, and you can also stop if you find it isn’t for you. Below is their description (from about.com).

Recruit and Hire the Best

Recruiting the best employees for your organization is an ongoing challenge for every manager, supervisor and Human Resources professional. If you’re looking for solid, proven best practices and up-to-the-minute ideas in recruitment, interviewing and selection, you’ve found the right course.

Participants in the class will cover the following areas of interest during the five weeks of the course. You will learn:

* Why an effective job description makes good business sense as the starting point for recruiting staff,
* Creative ways to find potential employees,
* How to use your team for recruitment,
* Top ten recruiting tips,
* How to screen potential employees,
* Eight hiring mistakes employers make: from application to interview,
* Ask right to hire right: how the interview approach can help you select the best candidate,
* Tips for interview approaches, and
* Best practices in interviewing.

You will learn to develop a superior workforce via a documented hiring process that:

* Defines the outcomes desired from the person you hire,
* Develops a job description that clearly describes performance responsibilities,
* Develops the largest pool of qualified candidates possible,
* Devises a careful candidate selection process to hire the best staff,
* Performs appropriate background checks,
* Makes an employment offer that confirms your position as an employer of choice.

Classes start every week. You will receive the weekly study guide on the same morning on which you signed up to have the course delivered to your email address. You can take the class at your own pace, but you will receive the emails every week.

The Recruit and Hire the Best training class is free. The only cost to you is the time you spend working on the lessons.

Click here for more information or to signup

I guess I haven’t been paying attention since I didn’t realize there were email based courses offered on various interesting topics. This one (they send you learning material for 5 days in a row) deals with doing effective interviews within a hiring context, something important for both human resources and managers who get involved in hiring.

Here’s the description:

Want to hire great employees? How to conduct a safe, legal job interview that also enables you to select the best candidate for your open positions is important. The job interview is one of the significant factors in hiring because so many employers count on the job interview to help determine their best, most qualified candidates.

Certainly the job interview is a key component in determining whether the candidate fits your company culture. This is so despite the fact that at least one research study indicates that selecting a candidate who performed well in an interview only increases your chances of hiring an employee who is successful by two percent.

So, perhaps the traditional job interview is accorded too much power in employee selection. But, since it is, you have the opportunity to either enhance your current skills or learn to do job interviews well, in this free email class.

Objectives of the Conduct Powerful Job Interviews Email Class

Learn more job interview tips and job interview techniques to make your job interviews a powerful tool and process to evaluate candidates. Specifically, in this job interview email class, you will learn:

• The approaches to job interviews that are available for your use.
• How to plan effective job interviews.
• Who should conduct the job interview.
• How to conduct the job interview.
• How to conduct behavioral job interviews.
• Job interview questions that are illegal and why they are illegal
• Excellent behavioral job interview questions.

For more information about this course, and to sign up (it’s a do it at your own pace course), click here.