At the end of the course students will be able to understand and explain basics of modern approaches, theories and trends of Talent Management in current global business environment. The emphasis is on identification and attraction of talents and further development of their life careers and their retention in order to increase Talents contribution to the competitiveness of the companies.

Understanding the modern approaches and trends in Talent Management students will in parallel improve their skills in Recruiting Process and Employee / Employer Selection process as well as identification and presentation of their core competencies in order to succeed individually at the market.

As a result of the course each student will have competitive Self-presentation:

• updated individual CV (Resume),

• current Letter of Interest,

• job interview communication and behavior skills.

Individual preparation and presentation, teamwork, in class work-shops, group presentations, personal analysis and development plan presentation, final test.

Approved i) updated individual CV (Resume), ii) current Letter of Interest, iii) job interview communication and behavior skills.

Mandatory readings

Arsmstrong, M. and Taylor, S. (2020). Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice. 15th ed. London: Kogan Page Limited, 2020. ISBN 978-0-7494-9827-6.

DESSLER, Gary. Human Resource Management. Florida: Pearson, 2013. ISBN 978-0132668217.

MERLEVEDE, Patrick. Talent Management: A Focus on Excellence. Bookbonn, 2014. ISBN 978-87-403-0740-5.

CARTER, L., Goldsmith M. Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent. San Francisco: Pfeiffer, 2010. ISBN 9780470499610.

Recommended readings

MICHAELS, E., HANDFIELD-JONES, H., AXELROD, B. The War for Talent. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. ISBN 15-785-1459-2.

MATTONE, J., XAVIER, L., FITZ-ENZ, J. Talent Leadership: A Proven Method For Identifying and Developing High-Potential Employees, New York: AMACOM, 2013. ISBN 9780814432396.

Talent Management – individual preferences analyses;

Talent and job performance;

Core personal skills and competencies – identification, development and presentation;

Self-presentation – individual student´s CV and the Letter of Interest;

Attraction of talents, Hiring Internally, Hiring Externally – current options;

Candidates recruitment process knowledge;

Candidates selection process skills;

Selection interviews preparation;

Selection interviews role-plays;

Development of talents – feed-back session, career planning workshop;

Diversity workshop;

Retention of talents – responding to individual preferences.

Human Resource Management knowledge.