Summiya Begum            Unit 15 – Recruitment and selection          Teacher: Mr Firth

BTEC National Diploma in Business

Unit 15 – Recruitment and selection

What is recruitment and selection?

Recruitment and selection describes the process that organisations follow to attract applications from people who want to work for them, and then to choose the best person for the job.

Aims of the assessment

The purpose of this unit is to enable me to explore the process of recruitment planning; investigate selection practice; explore recruitment practices and procedures and review the impact of recruitment and selection legislation.

Scenario

I have to select a business of my choice and ensure that I can obtain all the relevant information to cover all the outcomes.

Tasks and activities

  1. I will create a booklet that outlines the different stages of recruiting and selecting an appropriate employee in the business that I have selected.

  1. I will explain the techniques employers use to ensure that recruitment and selection are conducted efficiently and effectively.

  1. In groups of three (representing panels) I will plan to recruit one of the posts that the organisation has vacant. In my role as panel member I will need to undertake the relevant activities:

  • Review the application forms (making notes on relevant documentation).

  • Plan the selection process of interviewing for the most suitable candidate and ultimately role play the interview process selecting the appropriate candidate.

  • Create the necessary documentations needed for the interview.

  • Outline the criteria upon which I will base my selections.

  • Conduct the interview – with panel members taking on agreed roles.

  • Select the appropriate candidate with reasons for choice/rejections.

  • Complete the necessary documentation including outcome letters to all categories of candidates.

  • Review the selection interview highlighting good and bad points.

  1. I will evaluate the effectiveness of selection interviews as a method to select the most suitable candidate (advantages and disadvantages). I will state the recommendations I would make to improve my procedure.

  1. I will describe the recruitment practices and procedures used in the business that I have selected, which is Swanlea School.

  1. I will identify the main legislations to which employers at Swanlea School must comply and explain how the legislations affect the recruitment practice.

  1. I will provide a document which explains the importance of recruitment practices and procedures in ensuring that businesses meet their ethical and legal requirements.

Task one

The business I am selecting to write about is Swanlea School, which is a secondary school. The specific post I am going to write about is for a Business and Enterprise Coordinator, which is currently in the process of recruitment at Swanlea School.

The different stages in the recruitment and selection process – Swanlea School

The four main areas that Swanlea School need to cover for recruiting and selecting new applicants are as follows:

  • Recruitment planning - The first area is planning for the recruitment itself.

  • Selection practice - The second is to select the most suitable candidates.

  • Recruitment practices and procedures – After that comes the interview for successful applicants.

  • Recruitment and selection legislation - Finally, when Swanlea School has made a decision, they need to go through all the legislations with the applicant that they need to follow as an employer.  This includes making agreements and signing contracts.

Post: Business and Enterprise Coordinator

  •  Job post applications:

  • Job posting on local newspapers, which includes the East End Life, The Times (Educational supplement – TES) and on the Guardian Education.

  • Gathering all the applications for the specific post applied for and in this case it is for a Business and Enterprise Coordinator.

  • Contact the most suitable candidates by phone, email or letter and arrange times and dates on when interviews will be held.

  • Interview team selection and use multiple means of assessment, scheduling, and travel planning.

  • Following from the interview, create a selection of qualified candidates and contact the most successful applicants to come for a second interview.

  • For applicant tracking, check their candidate background and drug screening and train those who have the necessary skills and qualifications to do the job.

 

  • Use multiple means of assessment, such as role plays and skills auditing in order to see how they cope in a potential real life situation.

  • Make a decision on the individual that is most suited for the job and create and post an offer letter.

  • Finally train to help the new media resources coordinator to succeed in their job role.

What are the different techniques that Swanlea School use to ensure that recruitment and selection are conducted efficiently and effectively?

  • Swanlea School has specialist staffs available that is primarily responsible for recruitment and selection of new applicants.

This is the administrations department that make sure important information are correctly stored and processed. The people working in the administrations department have the required skills to conduct the recruitment and selection course and are usually involved in the interview process and the decision making as well as enlisting successful candidates, although the senior management, such as the deputy head teacher and the head teacher in this case also have an involvement in the decision making of the candidate.

  • The administrations department place adverts on local newspapers, which includes the East End Life and The Times and in doing that it increases the number of candidates applying for the job, which makes the whole of the recruitment and selection process faster.

  • Swanlea School provide the necessary contact details placed on their advert for applicants, such as their email, school address, fax and telephone. This enables a rapid response from interested candidates.

  • Swanlea School are concise and clear when they were advertising for a Business and Enterprise Coordinator - both with the skills they wanted the applicant to have and the person specification. By using this approach they have successfully found the 'right' person for the job, in terms of their ability and skills. This also reduced the amount of time involved in reading applications and made the whole selection process faster.
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  • Swanlea School use external recruitment as a means of recruiting. This is when the business looks to fill the vacancy from any suitable applicant outside the business.

The advantages of that was that there is an increase in the amount of applicants in which to find the best candidate and it also means that people who apply for the job post will more suitably have a large range of experience because of the fact that the adverts are specific in terms of what Swanlea School require for a field, i.e. qualifications, previous experiences, previous jobs etc...

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