PDU Human Resources
These Human Resources Knowledge Area includes four PDU courses that can be purchased as a bundle or as individual courses, as listed.
Course Bundle: Effective Hiring and Interviewing - 6.0 hours/PDUs (Category B)
  • "What to Consider When Hiring - 2.0 hours/PDUs" Item No. hr_03_a01_bs_enus
  • "Interviewing Effectively - 2.5 hours/PDUs" Item No. hr_03_a02_bs_enus
  • "Choosing the Best Applicant - 1.5 hours/PDUs" Item No. hr_03_a03_bs_enus
  • "Effective Hiring and Interviewing Simulation" Item No. HR003A
  • What to Consider When Hiring - 2.0 hours/PDUs (Category B)This course will give you a brief overview of the major employment legislation that affects recruitment. Then the course will explore the options that any manager has when faced with hiring a new employee. Hiring is an expensive process, so the course explores a cost-benefit analysis of the various hiring methods, examining in detail internal hiring and contingent workers as two particular options. Defining a job in terms of competencies and then rating them provides the foundations for effec
    Interviewing Effectively - 2.5 hours/PDUs (Category B)This course will show you how to create methods that are reliable, and will explain the questioning and rapport-building techniques that effective interviewers use. During interviews, applicants are also trying to impress you and assessing your organization. This course will show you how to recognize the techniques used by experienced candidates, and how to impress them.
    Choosing the Best Applicant - 1.5 hours/PDUs (Category B)This course will show you the most effective methods for evaluating and choosing the best applicants. It will show you how to analyze the information from the interview - by working in a focused framework - and how to compare candidates. You will examine and avoid the most common problems with decision making, and confirm and ratify your decision with other people who know the candidate. Put that all together, and you will have the best possible recipe for choosing the best applicants.
    Effective Hiring and Interviewing Simulation - 0.5 hours/PDUsThe Effective Hiring and Interviewing Simulation comprises five scenarios and is based on the SkillSoft series "Effective Hiring and Interviewing."