4.2 Recruitement And Selection Of Employees

Question 1

Defin recruitement

Answer 1

The process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate for a job opening, in a timely and cost affective manner

Question 2

Why would people leave their jobs

Answer 2

Illness
Fired
New job opportunity
Retirement
Pregnancy

Question 3

A business will recruit to fill in skill gaps. What is a skill gap?

Answer 3

A skill gap is the differenve between the skills the business wants and the skills the employees have. Will do it by hiring employees with the skills they need

Question 4

What is internal recruitement

Answer 4

Internal recruitement means attracting staff already working within the business to apply for the new job.
-staff can be attracted to a new position theough the business newsletter
-workers may be invited to apply for
promotion positions
- New vacancies may be announced in meetings
or pinned to notice boards

Question 5

What is external recruitement

Answer 5

-Internal candidates may not have skills set required for a new position
-vacanacy may have to be advertised externally if there is no-one suitable already working in the business
-external recruitment may be through adverts,newspapers,adverts onljne or dven with recruitement agencies
-fresh candidates can bring new ideas and enthusiasm
-external candidates have not become tired or bored with the work and are enthusiastic so work harder

Question 6

Order of recruitement

Answer 6

1.Business identifies the need to recruit a new member of staff.
2.business writes job description
3.business write a person specification
4. Business advertises the job and interviews the candidate

Question 7

What is job analysis

Answer 7

Job analysis is a process to identify and determine in detail the particular job duties and requirements and the relative importance of these duties for a given job.

Question 8

What is person specification

Answer 8

-when business wants to recruit a new member of staff they will write a person specification
-putlines the-personal qualities, qualifications, work experience and skills.
-this is a wish list of qualities that the business would like the new member to staff to have

Question 9

What is job description

Answer 9

-as part of the recuitement process the business will also write a job description
-this describes the duties and responsibilities of the role
-it also describes what the new employee would do on a day-to-day basis

Question 10

Benefits lf an effective recruitement process

Answer 10

-high productivity
-high quality output
-better customer service
-staff retention

❑ If recruitment is carried out properly then the right employee for the job vacancy will be hired
❑ Effective recruitment should hire employees that can produce high quality output – this is especially
important in creative industries such as glass blowing
❑ In some industries such as hotels and restaurants, hiring the right employees can give a business
competitive advantage through good customer service.
❑ If the wrong employee has been hired for the job, often they will quickly leave and the business will
have to start the recruitment process over again, which is expensive

Question 11

Full time work advantages and disadvantages

Answer 11

Advantages–may be higher paid per hour than part-time
-access to more holiday entitlement
-employees are committed to the business and may be more productive
-loyalty to the business

Disadvanatges-Employees standingbidle kf there is a business downturn
-less flexible than part-timers,no-one to cover late nights and weekends

Question 12

Part-time work advantages and disadvantages

Answer 12

Advantages–good way to keep costs down while a business is growing
-part-time jobs attract a wide pool of applicants with experience and skills who might not want a full-time job
-flexible to respond to seasonal changes

Disadvantages–employees might not give the business the commitment and loyalty that a full-time worker would
-employee may work more ghan one job whivh would make them inflexible
-employee might leave if they find a full-time job

Question 13

Zero hours advantages and disadvantages

Answer 13

Advantages–great for a business hwere work can be unpredictable
-gokd flr staff needed at short notice
-greater felxibility

Disadvantages–less commitment and loyalty from employees
-employees make become unhappy with 0 hours and leave the job

Question 14

Job share advantages and disadvantages

Answer 14

Advantages–greater productivity
-work-life balance
-creates loyalty
-combination of 2 skill sets

Disadvatages–might not get along
-personality difference=conflict
-hard to recruit employees for a job share