Kenwood - Recruitment and Selection

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Kelly Townend

Recruitment and Selection

Kenwood are a world wide company and therefore have a wide variety of job vacancies. These range from working in the head offices as a product manager, Human Resources, Finance and other key roles in the company.

Kenwood offer a competitive salary to all of their employees, contributory pension scheme, 25 days holiday a year and many over company advantages. Overall Kenwood’s offer a fair wage to all their employees, offer equal job opportunities to all cultures.

Kenwood Ltd is an equal opportunity employer, committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst their workforce. The Company’s long-term aim is that the arrangement of their workforce should reflect that of the local community.. All employees, whether part-time, full-time or temporary will be treated fairly and with the up most respect, when the selection progress in carried out it means that applicants are tested on the ability and knowledge to carry out the tasks at hand.

When Kenwood recruit they offer a promise to their previous and new employees and these are:

To create an environment in which individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued.

· Every employee is entitled to a working environment that promotes dignity and respect for all. No form of intimidation, bullying or harassment will be tolerated.

· Training, development and progression opportunities are available to all staff.

· They will continuously review all our employment practices and procedures to ensure fairness.

· Breaches of this Policy will be regarded as misconduct and could lead to disciplinary action.

· This Policy is fully supported by senior management.

· The Policy will be monitored and reviewed annually.

The recruitment process is as follows:

Identify the vacancy.

Title of the post, summary of job,

including a person specification.

Advertising the post externally/internally.  

They then have to short-list the candidates suitable for the job.

Applicants will then have the first interview with human resources.

Once a candidate has been chosen they will then have

         an interview with the line manager.        If not a suitable candidate,

re-advertise.

The recruitment process

The recruitment process will be carried out as a joint process; this means that the managers and the human resources staff at Kenwood will examine each stage in detail so that then in turn the right person is chosen for the job at hand.

Identify the vacancy

Certain vacancies can occur for different reasons these can include:

  • Staff leave because they have either retired or resigned. Reasons can be just that they want a change of scenery.
  • Staff have been dismissed.
  • Staff have been promoted- i.e. from assistant to manager.
  • Additional staff are needed for reasons that the company is expanding. Kenwood had expanded globally therefore needed to employ more staff to fulfil job requirements.
  • Job roles are changing, new skills are needed. ( i.e. basic IT skills)

When a person leaves in the company the human resources and managers have to take in account the company’s budgets, can they afford to recruit? There could be the factors such as that is the post now needed.

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In many cases Kenwood will look at how the job can be filled effectively, so a re-examination of the job will be a carried out. This will then identify the changes that have occurred such as the new methods of working, changes in the external environment and the introduction of new technology externally and internally.

 

These decisions to recruit are made via a consultation with the line manager of the department, personnel department who has the overall responsibility for recruitment and the finance department; this is to make sure that the organisation can afford it.

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