Recruitment Flashcards
When an employer wants to recruit a new employee what do they have to do first?
Understand what the job entails
Producing a job description document
Thinking about what sort of worker they would like to do the job
Producing a person specification
Define the term ‘job description’.
A document that defines the overall purpose of the job and the main tasks that need to be carried out.
What should be included in a job description?
Job title
Who the job holder is responsible to
Who the job holder is responsible for
Job purpose
Duties
Conditions of service
Define the term ‘job purpose’.
It describes what the job aims to achieve
Define the term ‘duties’ in a job description.
They outline what the job holder is expected to do
They are often written in bullet points
Define the phrase ‘conditions of service’.
Describes what the job holder gets in return for the service e.g. pay, holiday and any benefits
What should be done to a job description regularly?
Updated regularly with the name and signature of whoever updated it last plus the date of when it was last reviewed
Define the term ‘person specification’.
A document that defines the skills, qualifications, qualities and attributes needed to do the job well. The qualities will be marked essential or desirable.
Define the term ‘essential qualities’.
Qualities a person has to have in order to do the job and be recruited
Define the term ‘desirable qualities’.
Qualities that would be preferable but not necessary to do the job.
After reading through all the applications, what might a business do to choose the people they want to interview?
Shortlisting
Define the term ‘shortlisting’.
Only interviewing those with all the essential criteria on the person specification to narrow done the number of people applying for the job
What should be available on a job advertisement?
Job description
Person specification
