Btec Level 3 - M2 Business Resources

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M2 Assess the importance of employability and personal skills in the recruitment and retention of staff in a selected organisation. This report will assess the importance of employability and personal skills in the recruitment and retention of staff in a selected organisation. For this report I will use an application I made to the Lewisham Council for a Finance apprenticeship. Recruitment The council are seeking to employ an apprentice. The council advertised a job advertisement and attached a job description and person specification. People who see this advertisement can, if they feel they are suitable for the role, they can apply or if they feel they don’t have the correct qualifications or are overqualified, and then they can see that they are not able to apply for the vacancy. This is helpful because people who are interested in applying for the position can clearly see what the business is looking for in terms of qualifications and the person looking to apply will be able to identify whether they posses the correct skills to apply for this role. This way, the business won’t receive lots of applications from people with irrelevant skill or experience making the recruitment process simpler. When applying for the apprenticeship with the Lewisham Council, I had in hand the job description and person specification which helps me to tailor my application to the job including information which is relevant to the job. For example, when I applied for this vacancy, I included my business accounting qualifications and my maths and English qualifications, however, I did not include the fact that I had Motor Vehicle qualification as this would be totally irrelevant and would not support my application in any way. By having a person specification and job description, the people applying can clearly see what the business wants and needs and can then outline in

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