HNC Managing People Assignment

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HNC Managing People Assignment

Task 1- Job Description

Job Title: Human Resources Officer

Reporting to: HR & Personnel Manager

Location: Northampton/Leicester (travelling between is involved)

Job Role Summary

Responsible for:

* Recruitment, selection, training, and development of all staff.

* The Management and Leadership of a team of 5 people.

* The overall training budget of the Company.

* Company Legislation appertaining to HR. Management and Employee Welfare.

Duties include:

· To produce accurate conditions of service contracts and process instructions for all aspects of salary payments for employee starters and leavers.

· To issue accurate pay instructions to organisational pay services, ensuring information is received and processed, chasing queries as and when necessary.

· To liaise with pay services on discrepancies, etc and inform members of staff of responses, ensuring all issues are dealt with in a timely manner.

· To distribute pay slips to all employees on payroll.

· To monitor and accurately maintain sick leave records for all staff, liaising with managers and the welfare service where appropriate.

· To update and maintain the computerised Personnel system, ensuring data is accurate at all times.

· To administer the recruitment process in an efficient and effective manner ensuring timescales and procedures are adhered to.

· To act as an usher and provide assistance at interviews, selection tests and other assessments when required.

· To act as HR representative on recruitment boards, as and when necessary.

· To provide 'first day' induction to new employees in line with corporate policy.

· To administer the flexible working scheme for staff.

· To request references, health clearance, and security clearance for potential employees.

· To fulfil the requirements of equal opportunities policy and procedures and implement equality principles and practices within the context of the job.

The successful candidate must be able to prioritise work and meet deadlines, communicate effectively and have attention to detail. It essential that the successful candidate has intermediate to advanced MS Office skills and, ideally you will have a personnel qualification or be willing to study for the Certificate in Personnel Practice.

Task 2 Interviews

Interviews are a good way of the interviewer and interviewee of getting to known more information about the job and suitability of each other for the job, it is seen to be a two-way process. It can also be useful for the interviewee to find out more about the job, company and future prospects.

When interviewing there are 3 broad interview options:

* One to one

* Panel Interviews

* Sequential interviews

One-to-one interviews

As the name suggests, this is a meeting between the candidate and one interviewer. The interviewee will try to develop a rapport between them self and the interviewer. The problem with this type of interview for a HR Officer is if discrimination occurs then there is greater possibility of liability.

Sequential interviews

In this case you have several interviews in turn with different interviewers. Usually each interviewer asks questions to test different sets of competencies. However this is not always the case. The interviewee may find them self answering the same questions over and over.

Panel interviews

In this type of interview the interviewee is questioned by several people sitting on a panel. The actual number of interviewers can vary, but there is usually a chairperson to co-ordinate the questions, a specialist who knows about the job in detail and a personnel manager. I will be using this type of interview for the position of HR officer as it would enable us as an organisation to gain a broader insight into the interviewee and take a wider view on the suitability, as there are more people to comment. Each person could focus there questions on a different part of the person specification in order for each area to be covered fairly.
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Selection Methods

After the interview stage, the company will use selection tests, in order to select the right candidate. It must demonstrate fairness in selection, and it is better than just relying on an interview. There are many methods of selection I could use when recruiting a Human Resources Officer. Some that would be useful are listed below:

Types of tests and exercises

Psychometric tests

There are three main types of psychometric test:

* Tests of ability, aptitude or intelligence;

* Questionnaires to measure 'personality';

* Questionnaires to ...

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