Recruiting & Managing Volunteers | Essential Skills Course

Overview

This course is aimed at staff/volunteers responsible for recruiting and selecting volunteers.

Recruiting volunteers is very different from recruiting paid staff. This workshop will assist you in identifying appropriate strategies to attract the right people to fill your volunteering roles, and to devise suitable recruitment and selection processes.

What you will learn

• What motivates people to volunteer
• What attracts potential volunteers to particular organisations
• The sources, targets and options for recruiting
• A range of ways to recruit and select volunteers, from the more traditional through to use of new media and ICT
• How to apply marketing principles to recruitment
• To describe fair selection criteria, interview procedures, and assessments
• Ways of dealing with difficult issues that may arise, and how to take action.

What you require

Just bring your enthusiasm and eagerness to learn—everything else is provided! The course price include refreshments and training materials where applicable. Full day sessions include lunch.