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:

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).

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. 

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