Right First Time

Synopsis: A guide to recruitment skills based on setting quantifiable objectives for each stage of the recruitment process. Includes both drama-based and documentary material designed to show the benefits of relying on objective criteria to make successful appointments.
1: Looks at the importance of planning: identifying the responsibilities of the job, recruitment criteria, and devising objective standards to measure performance.
2: The manager’s role at interview, stressing the importance of using a structured set of questioning skills. Highlights common pitfalls of interviewing, which include intimidating the candidate, talking too much, and drawing conclusions too soon.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 25, 17 min.
Year of production: 1995
Availability: Sale; 1997 sale: £395.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Documentation: Accompanying trainer’s guide.
Uses: Managers.
Subjects: Business studies
Keywords: interview techniques; personnel management; selection interviewing

Title: Planning
Synopsis: 1: Looks at the importance of planning: identifying the responsibilities of the job, recruitment criteria, and devising objective standards to measure performance.
Title: Interviewing
Synopsis: 2: The manager's role at interview, stressing the importance of using a structured set of questioning skills. Highlights common pitfalls of interviewing, which include intimidating the candidate, talking too much, and drawing conclusions too soon.

Name: BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
Contact: Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
Email: BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
Web: https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
Phone: +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
Address: BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK
Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

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