Recruitment Flashcards
Succession planning
the process of identifying the critical positions within your organization and developing action plans for individuals to assume those positions.
Capacity planning
Capacity planning is a process that balances the available resources
to meet requirements.
Resource planning
Resource planning is an organisational level activity designed to
ensure that the business has enough resources to meet the output
requirements of its budget, and then to secure their supply.
Recruitment
Recruitment is a key function of any HR department, and its objective
is to ensure that any vacancies within the organisation are filled by the
best possible candidates.
Recruitment documentation
A recruitment process will commonly begin with the publication of two
key documents:
job description
person specification.
Job description
a description of the organisation’s activity, scope and scale, to set
the job context
an overview of the job content, including its purpose and primary
tasks
who the job reports to, and perhaps how many colleagues report
through the advertised role
where the job is located and any additional travel requirements
Person specification
The person specification details the candidate attributes required to fulfil
the job description, including some or all of the following:
skills and experience
educational qualifications
character attributes