Internal recruitment for Hugh Baird
How Hugh Baird recruits internally; Hugh Baird recruits internally through their website which only their employees can access. The most frequent way Hugh Baird recruit internally is by sending out emails to their employees.
Why Hugh Baird recruit internally; Hugh Baird sees lots of potential in their staff and provide the best training they can. Hugh Baird recruits internally because the staff is already familiar with the business and the staff are most probably familiar with other jobs in the business as the employees would have befriended other employees. Another reason Hugh Baird recruits internally is because it costs less as new employees may need training.
Internal recruitment for River Island
How River Island recruits internally; River Island recruits internally by announcing the job offer at meetings. Also River Island give out fliers internally through out the business.
Why River Island recruit internally; as I mentioned before River Island prefer to recruit externally but when they do recruit internally they do this because they see that a member of staff may have extra skills for a higher job.
External sources: Hugh Baird does offer promotions to keep the staff motivated but a business always needs new ideas and when employing a new candidate there is a chance that that candidate will bring in new ideas from outside of the business this is why both businesses go externally. Hugh Baird advertises when there are new job vacancies available through external agencies whereas River Island advertises job openings through fliers and job websites they do this because most people that look for jobs go on the job websites and River Island mostly recruit externally because as I mentioned before they like new faces and ideas.
External recruitment for Hugh Baird
How Hugh Baird recruits externally; Hugh Baird advertise externally mainly through the job centre and the news paper.
Why Hugh Baird recruits externally; new faces and ideas are always good for a business so Hugh Baird prefers to promote their existing staff and replace them with new ones to see if there will be new ideas from the new employee.
External recruitment for River Island
How River Island recruits externally; River Island recruit externally by using job websites and fliers.
Why River Island recruits externally; River Island always believed that new employees bring in new style and ideas and this is why they prefer new faces.
How the recruitment process starts and finishes
Vacancy identified
Write a job description
Write a person specification
Advertise the job
Send the application forms
Receive application forms
Short list the application forms
Interview applicants
Select the best applicant
Make the job offer
There are different way to apply for a job, River Island give you an application form to fill in and that is so that it is more updated because a CV could have been last updated months before applying for a job. Another reason River Island used application forms because they can ask equations that are more personal to identify the type of worker the applicant is. Hugh Baird College uses application forms as well as River Island. Another way to apply for a job is using a CV which is simpler because takes less time for the applicant but it is not as updates as an application form maybe.
When a business declines an employees application for a job the business has to give a specific reason for the rejection. It is illegal for River Island or Hugh Baird College or any other business to decline an applicant for anything apart from their skills because it is against the law.
There are varieties of recruitment laws:
Disability discrimination Act; If a disabled person applies for a job you cannot turn them down just because there in a wheel chair or if partially blind even if working on a computer this is because it is up to a business to equip people with suitable equipment. If the person still cannot do the job properly then the business can dismiss them. This law has an impact on any business because Hugh Baird has to spend lots of money on equipment such as ramps all over the buildings. In Hugh Baird they have lifts, different coloured paper for dyslexic students and etc this has a possitive and a negative impact as it will cost them lots of money but it will also gain them good ethics. This law can also be an advantage because if there is equipment for disabled people more people will go there. This law basically covers that disabled people have to be treated the same and need to be provided with equipment to help them work so they have a chance to show their potential. If an employer does not provide the employee with the equipment needed the company can be sued.
The Minimum Wage Act; now states the minimum pay is £4.98 an hour. This has an impact on Hugh Baird because it is more expensive to have lots of workers at the same time and this means less job vacancies and fewer employees. If this law is breached Hugh Baird will get shut down. This law has an impact on the general public too because they may not be able to get a job as Hugh Baird wont be able toafford to hire them.
The Discrimination Act; age, colour and gender should not matter when applying for a job. This law has let women work at construction sites. The discrimination law has been made to stop racism and sexism as it is illegal for employees to judge by age, could, gender. If this happens the business could be sued for lots and lots of money and even shut down as this is a serious crime. This has a good impact on Hugh Baird as this will allow lots of different cultured employees and students attend college and this will only make the college more interesting and the employees and thew students can learn more about different cultures.
Confidentiality; A very important law is applied to every business and it is called confidentiality. It is top priority in a business to keep the staff and customers information out of reach of any person. If it happens that somebody reaches the information the business will be destroyed as it is highly illegal to leave information in reach of other people. The impact this has on Hugh Baird because it cost lots of moneyto pay for the security.
Health and Safety Act; is also important so Hugh Baird College has to make sure that if for example a floor is wet somewhere on the premises they have to put a sign up informing people that it is unsafe. If this law is breached the business can get sued for thousands of pounds and may lose the business as Health and Safety is very important. The law states that a building must be safe for the employees.
There are people called the health inspectors and they come at unexpected times and if for example they go on a construction site and one of the workers are not wearing a helmet or steel toe cap boots the business would get shut down within minuets. The impact this has on Hugh Baird is it keeps them on their toes as they have to watch out for lots of people students and employees and the college has to look out for everybody whereas they need to be consentrating on other things.
A business identifies a vacancy when somebody leaves for a reason such as sick leave or maternity, etc. or maybe a member of staff got promoted and that spot needs filling.
A job description is a document which explains where you will be working how long for and what you will be doing and how much you will be getting paid
A person specification is about what skills are needed and would be nice to have.
This could be done through a job centre or the radio or the newspaper
Different businesses have different ways of short listing their application forms but the smartest way is when the application forms are received someone will rip of the front page that has the candidates age, sex and date of birth on it and label each sheet with candidate 1, 2 and so on, and pass on to someone else who will just be able to read the skills and abilities and then short list the application forms. This is done so that a business does not break any laws which I will get to later.
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