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Use the Tesco Times 100 Case Study to answer the following questions
about recruitment at Tesco.
1. How many employees does Tesco have in the UK?

2. What are the four types of Tesco store?

3. International expansion is part of Tesco’s strategy. What does strategy mean?

4. Tesco wants to diversify and grow the business? What does diversify mean?

5 (a) What job roles does Tesco need in its stores?

5 (b) What job roles does Tesco need in its distribution depots?

5 (c) What job roles does Tesco need in its head office?

6. Tesco has a structured process for recruitment and selection to make sure it has the
right number of people in the right jobs at the right time.

(a) Explain what is meant by recruitment

(b) Explain what is meant by selection

7. What is workforce planning?

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8. How does workforce planning help Tesco?

9. Why do positions at Tesco become available?

10. Tesco tries to fill many vacancies from within the company. Why does it do this?

11. What is an appraisal?

12. What does a job description set out?

13. What does a person specification set out?

14. Why do job descriptions and person specifications help job applicants and post-
holders?

15. Copy and paste the combined job description and person specification used at
Tesco.

16. Job descriptions and person specifications provide a benchmark for each job in
terms of responsibilities and skills. What is a benchmark?

17. What is an organisational structure?

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18. There are six work levels at Tesco. Copy and paste the work levels diagram here
and then explain each work level in more detail.

19. What are targets?

20. What are values?

21. What is a vision?

22 (a) Where would you apply for a managerial position

22 (b) Where would you apply for a store-based job

23. What is an assessment centre?

24. How does Tesco advertise externally for its more specialist jobs such as bakers or
pharmacists?

25. Why might Tesco advertise it jobs on TV or radio or in some magazines?

26. Click the Tesco website link. What schemes are available to students?

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27. Screening candidates is a very important part of the selection process. What is
screening?

28. What is a selection process?

29. What does a CV summarise?

30. Copy and paste the diagram showing Tesco’s recruitment and selection process
here.

31. Where do Tesco’s assessment centres take place, who runs them and what do
job applicants do there?

32. Following the assessment centre, if a candidate is approved, what happens next?

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