Managing Contractors and Temporary Employees

course will give you the tips and strategy you need to successfully hire temporary and contract staff; you will also gain awareness of employment legislations around temporary and contingent staff hire. This course will be suitable for training managers, human resource managers, functional managers and frontline staff.

Why do this course?

• Looks great on your CV
• Shows recruiters you have the skills they are looking for
• Gives you a great grounding in team management

Doing Business with Independent Contractors

This course will:

• Acquaint you with the law
• Give you the knowledge to manage independent contractors appropriately--without inadvertently changing their employment status
• Look at an actual court case and get a chance to apply what you've learned

Hiring Temporary (Contingent) Employees

This course will help you:

• Determine whether to hire temporary employees or nonemployees (independent contractors)
• Discover many important factors about how temporary workers are different from core employees - in terms of recruiting, hiring and training
• Prepare to meet your short-term or seasonal staffing requirements

Managing Contingent Workers

Through this course, you will learn to:

• Examine various aspects of successful contingent workers management
• Analyse various methods of communicating expectations and job issues
• Control and monitor contingent workers
• Manage contingent workers so they are productive, satisfied and cooperative
• Avoid the legal pitfalls of managing contingent workers like regular employees

Legal Pitfalls Regarding Independent Contractors

Through this course, you will learn to:

• Examine the various aspects of hiring and managing independent contractors
• Summarise the hazards of misclassification
• Classify workers
• analyse strategies to make sure you don't inadvertently convert independent contractors to employees by your management practices
• Use independent contractors as needed to meet your organisation's staffing needs without concern about legal liabilities from misclassification.

Working with Temporary Agencies

Through this course you will:

• Develop your skills at using temporary agencies to meet short-term staffing requirements
• Learn to apply strategies to help you hold down costs and hire qualified temporary workers
• Learn to successfully manage your organisation's relationship with temporary agencies

What’s included?

• Hands-on interactive exercises - learn by doing

In partnership with Skillsoft

reed.co.uk has partnered with SkillSoft, the world’s leading provider of eLearning, to offer you all the quality training you need. You will be learning on SkillSoft software. SkillSoft is the world leader in e-learning for businesses, and is used by multinational companies such as FedEx, Hilton, VirginMedia and Hewlett Packard. By training with SkillSoft you will be working with an industry recognised organisation and investing in training that employers already know and trust.

Please note:

Please allow 24 hours to receive your online training details. If your order is made over the weekend, your online training details will be provided on the following Monday morning.

This SkillSoft course is not aligned to any certification or exam - it is a course to teach knowledge and skills.

This course is designed specifically for for use on desktop browsers. Performance on mobile devices may vary and compatibility with non-desktop devices is not guaranteed.