Recruitment and Retention
The Office for the Community Sector has developed some handy tools and guides to help your NFP organisation attract, recruit and retain the right staff:
The basics of recruitment
Best practice recruitment and selection – a tool kit for the community sector (PDF 1655 KB) or (Word 215 KB).
- The Community Sector Workforce Capability Framework
- The basics of recruitment
- Best practice recruitment and selection - a tool kit for the community sector
- Attracting and retaining staff in rural and regional Victoria
Community Sector Workforce Capability Framework
The Workforce Capability Framework has been designed to assist Victorian individuals and NFP organisations with the recruitment and retention of staff, performance management and career planning.The basics of recruitment
The basics of recruitment for NFP community organisations (Word 78 KB) or (PDF 1.65 MB) includes information on:
- how to develop a good position description
- what you need to know about advertising the job
- how to conduct an interview
- how to go about selecting the right person for the job
- how to support for the new starter.
Best practice recruitment and selection - a tool kit for the community sector
This tool kit describes the end-to-end recruitment and selection process, from planning the recruitment process to planning how successful it was. It includes information sheets describing each stage of the process. The templates can be downloaded and adapted to suit your individual organisation's needs.Best practice recruitment and selection – a tool kit for the community sector (PDF 1655 KB) or (Word 215 KB).
- Introduction (Word 115 KB)
- Planning (Word 539 KB)
- Assessment Plan (Word 123 KB)
- Position Description (Word 293 KB)
- Defining the attraction approach (Word 208 KB)
- Interview scoring (Word 119 KB)
- Reference Checks (Word 374 KB)
- Individual applicant scoring (Word 124 KB)
- Induction checklist (Word 300 KB)
- Gap analysis assessment tool (Word 396 KB)
Attracting and retaining staff in rural and regional Victoria
Community Sector - Attracting and retaining staff in rural and regional Victoria (PDF 1.8 MB) or (Word 153 KB) has been developed to assist regional community sector organisations to apply good practice in the recruitment and retention of staff. It includes an overview of the rural and regional workforce, strategies for attraction and retention and case studies of regionally based community sector organisations that have been successful in attracting and retaining staff.