2.1.9 Human resources plan: selection methods

Question 1

1. Define selection

Answer 1

This involves choosing the candidate who best matches the businesses’ requirements.

Question 2

2. Outline the stages in the selection process. Apply each to your business that you developed as part of
   the Online Social Enterprise Business (OSEB) project.

Answer 2

1. Applicants received

• internal/external recruitment

2. Screen applicants

• Management through the curriculum and cover letters

3. Short list

• Communicate to those who are best for the position

4. Conduct interviews and other selection tools
5. We collect our 30 resumes via a phone or website
6. We organise them into groups based on degrees from university
7. We organise a time to meet our potential employee
8. We establish whether they would be right for a particular position at our business

Question 3

3. Describe the importance of a quality selection process.

Answer 3

1. Poor selection leads to increased costs and lower productivity

Through potentially training costs and labour turnover

Question 4

4. Discuss two advantages and two disadvantages of the selection method that your business used as part
   of the Online Social Enterprise Business (OSEB) project.

Answer 4

2 Advantages

• Quality selection
• We pick people based on their degrees from university as we therefore get people, who are the best at math, science, and english

2 disadvantages

• People, who have a degree can not always be agreeable
• We can sometimes miss our applicants, who prefer to use the phone to call