Unit 13 P1

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Recruitment is the process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate (from within or outside of an organisation) for a job opening, in a timely and cost effective manner. The recruitment process includes analysing the requirements of a job, attracting employees to that job, screening and selecting applicants, hiring, and integrating the new employee to the organisation. The organisations that I will be identifying in the recruitment process is Leyton Sixth Form College and Sainsbury’s. Hiring a new employee is an investment. It is important to get the right person for the job. The right person will add value to an organisation, the wrong person can increase costs and reduce quality. Organisations can never be sure that they have selected the right person until he or she starts work, but an effective recruitment and selection process can reduce the risk. Recruitment and selection process 1. Job analysis – process of examining the various elements of a job, e.g. its responsibilities, tasks, duties 2. Job evaluation – assessment of the relative worth of a job, undertaken to ensure that the rewards of one job are fair compared to others in the organisation 3. Job description – broad statement about a job, e.g. its job title, reporting relationships, duties, tasks 4. Person specification – defines the requirements of the job holder, e.g. experience, qualifications, disposition 5. Attract applicants – e.g. advertise (internally or externally), contact job/ employment centres, contact colleges/universities, headhunt (i.e. recruit from other companies; also called poaching) 6. Applicants send – curriculum vitae, or fill in firm’s application form, or make direct contact 7. Selecting – e.g. interview, psychometric testing (personality test), aptitude testing (test skills e.g. word processing), intelligence testing, medical – check

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