Recruitment and Selection

Question 1

What are the benefits of recruiting internally?

Answer 1

• Motivating - other employees can see opportunity for career progression
• Already know the person and whether they fit in
• Retaining employees
• Cheaper and less time consuming

Question 2

What are the benefits of recruiting externally?

Answer 2

• New ideas - can be motivating
• Doesn’t leave an empty position
• Allows a culture to be built - they know no different

Question 3

What is internal recruitment?

Answer 3

Filling a position by promotion or demoting someone

Question 4

What is external recruitment?

Answer 4

Filling a position by bringing a new person in from outside the business

Question 5

What do job adverts include?

Answer 5

Job description, person specification

Question 6

What is the difference between a CV and an application form?

Answer 6

CV - written by you, selling yourself

Form - written by employer, rigid

Question 7

What are induction/trial days?

Answer 7

Settling the new employee in, showing them where they will work, giving them a taste of the job, meeting the team

Question 8

What is off the job training?

Answer 8

Training outside the business, a course

Question 9

What is on the job training?

Answer 9

training as you work, e.g shadowing someone

Question 10

What is a TNA?

Answer 10

A systematic approach for determining what training needs to take place

Question 11

What does a TNA consider?

Answer 11

• Business needs
• Current competancies
• Training methods
• Cost and effectiveness

Question 12

Factors affecting TNA…

Answer 12

• Necessity for everyone
• Objectives
• Skills needed in the future
• Who and why do they need training
• Available courses
• Measurement of results
• Capabilites of the workforce

Question 13

What is induction training?

Answer 13

A form of introduction for new employees in order to enable them to do their work in a new profession or job role within a business. It is systematic training.

Question 14

What is recruitment and selection?

Answer 14

The process of identifying a vacancy or a new job that is needed, identifying the needs and skill requirements for the job, advertising the position and choosing the most appropriate

Question 15

What benefit can businesses gain from if the right employee is recruited?

Answer 15

Recruiting employees with the correct skills can add value to a business and recruiting workers at a wage or salary that the business can afford, will reduce costs.

Question 16

Why might an application form be used instead of a CV?

Answer 16

Ensures the same information is yielded from all candidates and that their document is comparable as one individual’s CV might contain different info to another. Can ask and find out answers to questions you actually want to know the answer to.

Question 17

What is the process of looking through CVs and application forms?

Answer 17

Some are immidiately rejected perhaps due to lack of qualification or insufficient experience. Those placed on a shortlist - 3-10 invited to interview and those placed on a long list - back ups in case short list have already found a job.