Recruitment Strategies For Recruiting Foreign Nationals

2.2.2 Recruitment With volunteers choosing to devote less time to volunteer programs, it has become a struggle for organizations to compete for volunteers. To develop more effective recruitment strategies, an organization must identify the volunteer market or a market niche. Recruiting foreign nationals is another option to increase the volunteer pool and can be accessed through corporations, colleges and universities, immigrant programs, and foreign exchange programs. Individuals that participate have the benefit of making new friends, learning the host culture, utilizing their skills and talents, learning new skills, improving their English, and sharing their culture and language. Once an organization has completed its recruitment†¦show more content†¦2.2.4 Training and Development Once the right candidates have been selected, the next step is to properly train the new volunteers using the appropriate human resources management strategies in order for them to accurately perform the tasks of their new jobs. These training and development strategies are a great tool to motivate current volunteers, as well as teach new volunteers their jobs. In order to develop a training strategy, an assessment of the training needs of the organization is required. A needs assessment will use organizational, personnel, and task analysis to identify the suitability of training, who needs training, and what tasks, knowledge, skills, and behaviors need to be trained. Once this is completed, a learning environment must be created. The responsibility of the learning department falls under the human resources department and consists of the following steps: †¢ Establishing learning objectives and training outcomes †¢ Providing meaningful material or content †¢ Encouraging practice sessions and utilizing lessons learned †¢ Giving and receiving feedback †¢ Administering and coordinating training programs Finally, an evaluation of the training program will ensure that volunteers have been provided with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and resources