Approaches to Recruitment

Your Aims in Recruitment

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be cost-ef ective
be fair
meet future needs as well as present ones
be consistent
manage the public face of the organization.

Being Fair
1. Personal Liking
2. The Systems Approach
3. Personal and Systematic
4. Roles and Methods

5. Weighing Costs and Benefits

Key Points

1. The chief aim of recruitment is to appoint someone who

can do the job to a required standard.
2. Recruitment needs to comply with the spirit and letter
of anti-discrimination legislation.
3. Te recruitment process presents an organisations
public face.
4. Pursuing an equal opportunities selection approach
results in better selection decisions.
5. At one end of the spectrum of approaches to selection
is the highly personal approach; at the other is the
highly systematic approach.
6. The costs of getting recruitment wrong are as great as
the benefits of getting it right.

The 12 Steps of
Recruitment
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checking if you have a vacancy

taking the decision to recruit
writing the job description
writing the person specif cation
advertising the job
handling the response

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shortlisting
8) interviewing and testing
9) making a selection
10) taking up references
11) appointing
12) managing the new recruits start