1.4.2 Recruitment, Selection and Training Flashcards
Recruitment
Attracting potential candidates.
Recruitment and Selection
Filling job vacancies by defining the job, attracting suitable candidates and selecting those best suited to fill it.
Selection
Choosing the ideal candidate.
Reasons to recruit staff
- Business expansion.
- Existing employees leave.
- Business needs employees with new skills.
- Business is relocating.
Recruitment and Selection Process
- Identify the vacancy.
- Job analysis – identifies duties and responsibilities required.
- Job description – outlines tasks and responsibilities of the job.
- Person specification – outlines characteristics and qualifications of the person required to do the job.
- Advertise the vancancy.
- Receive applications
- Short listing and references.
- Assessing candidates.
- Offering position.
Costs of recruitment and selection
- Time consuming.
- Cost of advertising.
- Cost of wage of new employee.
- Cost of agency fees for a temp over.
- Loss of management time.
- Loss of productivity whilst new employee is being inducted.
Training
The process of equipping employees with the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out their job effectively.
- Can incentivise applicants to apply for a job.
- Can result in trained employees seeking alternative jobs elsewhere.
- Can lead to internal promotions as skills levels increase.
On the job training
Where an employee learns in the workplace from experienced employees.
Examples of on the job training
- Demonstration (showing employee how to do job)
- Coaching (close working relationship between experienced employee and trainee)
- Job rotation (given several jobs in succession to gain experience of a wide range of activities)
- Projects (gives them exposure to other parts of business and allows them to take part in new activities).
Benefits of on the job training
- More motivating as employees hands on from start.
- Tailored to business’ ways of working.
- Saves time and money.
- Trainee faced with real life scenarios.
Drawbacks of on the job training
- Bad habits.
- Distracting to other employees
- Risk of expensive errors.
- Loss of productivity on equipment while training is carried out.
Off the job training
Any form of education that takes place outside of the workplace.
Examples of off the job training
- Day or part time attendance at college.
- Professional development courses.
- Online/distant learning.
- Day release.
- Block release.
- Sandwich courses.
- Self study – computer based training.
- Sponsored courses in higher education.
Benefits of off the job training
- Brings fresh ideas and perspectives into workplace.
- Higher quality training as done by skilled experts.
- As it’s more expensive, employees will feel more valued and motivated.
Drawbacks of off the job training
- Expensive.
- Employees miss work, losing productivity.
- Training may not be tailored to businesses ways of working.
