1. Recruitment, selection and training

2. Why recruit?
What are the main reason why a business may choose to recruit?
Growth
Replacement
Position left vacant due to promotion
Temporary (e.g maternity)

3. The recruitment process
Identify the relevant stages in the process of recruiting someone
Identify the type and number of staff needed
Prepare job description and person specification
Advertise the job via relevant media
Evaluate applicants and shortlist
Carry out interview/testing
Evaluate interviews and appoint
Feedback to unsuccessful candidates

4. Job Description
This will outline the main roles and responsibilities that the successful applicant will undertake .
A job title will also be provided.
The job description will clearly show the applicant what is expected of them
Try to find a current job description online for a job your would be interested in doing

5. Person Specification
This document will provide information on the skills, experience, qualifications and qualities that the business would like the candidates to have.
These will typically be split up into
Essential
Desirable
What's the difference?

6. Task
Using your own knowledge and mobile technology find for a job of your choice research what ARE THE ESSENTIAL AND DESIRABLE SKILLS.
Think about the skills, qualifications, qualities they Must have and what you would like them to have

7. Internal and External recruitment
Appointing workers from within the organisation
External:
Appointing workers from outside the organisation
How do people find out about internal recruitment?

8. External Recruitment
In what ways can an organisation go about trying to recruit externally?
Word of mouth
Digital applications
Advertising
Agencies
Headhunting
Jobcentres
Apprenticeships
Provide one pro and one con of each of the methods above

9. Task
Create a table describing the strengths and weaknesses of both internal and external recruitment.

10. Cost of Recruitment
At every stage of the recruitment process a firm is going to incur cost.
Look at the whole recruitment process and Describe with examples how costs have been incurred at each stage

11. Training
All employees will have training at some point in their working life an it will always come at a cost.
Training cost – resources and providers etc
Loss of output – whilst training, you are not working
Employees who you have trained may leave!
You then have to pay to train someone else

12. Types of training There are 3 main types of training?
Induction
On the Job – How do we learn on the Job? Via what methods?
Off the job
What are the benefits and drawbacks of both on the Job and off the job training

13. Benefits of training?
Consider what benefits training employees will have on:
Managers
Owners
Employees
Customers