Recruitment and selection

Bowmer and Kirkland recruit people (take them on as staff) to keep their business running. They may need to recruit people because someone else is leaving or maybe a new position has become available.

The recruitment process costs a lot of time and money, Bowmer and Kirkland will measure their success of the recruitment process by labour turnover, for instance if more people are leaving they have not recruited the right people, so they may decide to find out why this is by asking people in an 'exit interview' why they have made this decision. In the past Bowmer and Kirkland have sent managers on actual cources for interviewing skills, this was to make the recruitment proccess more effective.

When a position becomes available Bowmer and Kirkland many different stages are gone through to make sure the recruitment is a success. Recruiting the right person is very important this is why the process seems so enlongated, they believe a business is as good as the people it employs, if they recruit someone who is not right for the position it will cause a lot of problems, mainly wasting time and money. Bowmer and Kirkland do not have a budget for recruiting so it can turn out to cost an awful lot.

  • Firstly have to decide wheather or not they actually want to recruit someone in that place, for this they will use a vacancy requisition form. This is used for permanent and temporary staff, it allows bowmer and kirkland to keep the information needed for filling the position all together, it is also a good planning sheet for the recruitment process as you record the date/deadline for filling the position and tick on it the reasources/ways you will be using for advertising and your desired budget.
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  • They will write down person specifications to describe the kind of person they need for the job, however Bowmer and Kirkland do not use psycometric testing methods as they do not believe it is right to judge someones ability on these tests, they have equal opportunities, however it is mostly men that apply for the jobs, this is because of the industy and type of working they do. Then a job specification, this describes what the job involves... the duties, tasks, roles and responcibilities of the person to be employed. They may change the job description for the ...

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