People - recruitment

Question 1

what is internal recruitment?

Answer 1

employees who currently work for the business can be promoted to the new job in the same business

Question 2

what is external recruitment?

Answer 2

employees do not currently work for the business given a job. these will be advertised via job centres or in store

Question 3

what are the cost of internal recruitment?

Answer 3

• usually less applicants
• promoting an existing employee can create another vacancy
• there is no fresh and new ideas coming into the business
• conflict can arise due to one employee being promoted over another

Question 4

what are the benefits of internal recruitment?

Answer 4

• advertising costs less
• employee know the business - save on training and time
• opportunity to gains. promotion can motivate employees
• vacancies are usually filled quicker

Question 5

what are the costs of external recruitment?

Answer 5

• induction training needed
• lot of applicants - selection process longer
• demotivate staff as they feel no opportunity for promotion
• chosen candidate may not live up to application and turn out to be unsuitable for the job

Question 6

what are the benefits of external recruitment?

Answer 6

• wider pool of applicants to choose from
• staff brought from outside the organisation can bring in fresh new ideas
• opportunity to head hunt candidate
• avoid creating another vacancy to fill
• avoid conflict

Question 7

what is step one in the recruitment process?

Answer 7

identify a vacancy

Question 8

what is step 2 in the recruitment process?

Answer 8

prepare a job analysis ( 2 documents: job description and person specification)

Question 9

what is a job description?

Answer 9

give candidates more info about eh job such as working hours and pay

Question 10

what is a person specification?

Answer 10

describes the ideal candidate the employer is looking for (skills and qualities)

Question 11

what is step 3 in the recruitment process?

Answer 11

advertise the job - a advert will need to be create and displayed in a variety of ways: intranet (INT), notice board (INT), newspapers (EXT), job centres (EXT)

Question 12

what is step 4 in the recruitment process?

Answer 12

issue application forms and request CV

Question 13

what is step 5 in the recruitment process?

Answer 13

receive completed applications

Question 14

what is step 6 in the recruitment process?

Answer 14

short list candidates

Question 15

what is step 7 in the recruitment process?

Answer 15

interviews

Question 16

what is step 8 in the recruitment process?

Answer 16

offers

Question 17

what are step 5-8 also known as?

Answer 17

the selection process