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Ten Top Tips for Recruitment and Selection
- Conduct a rigorous and systematic job analysis - prepare a detailed job description and person specification and set key performance criteria
- Word adverts carefully and beware of misleading or discriminatory adverts
- Consider a wide range of “attraction strategies” in addition to the advert, including the firm’s website, online recruitment, waiting lists and speculative CVs and you and your employees’ contacts and network
- Ask all applicants prior to interview if they require any adjustments or special arrangement for the interview or tests
- Ensure that everyone who has to recruit is adequately trained in recruitment, best non discriminatory practice and equal opportunities - potential employers can be taken to an employment tribunal
- Ask every candidate if there are any restrictions on his/her employment and ask all candidates to provide relevant documents at the same stage in the recruitment process
- Don’t rely on the interview alone to make the selection decision - use a wide range of methods, including objective, measurable, reliable and valid tests
- Recruit for attitude and not just for professional and technical expertise
- Treat everyone with total respect – remember the PR aspect of recruitment
- Establish a retention period for your recruitment records and store records securely - they may be needed in a tribunal
For more information please contact Marjorie Bremner.
