1.2.4 Recruitment selection and training

What is the recruitment and selection process?

When a vacancy comes in a business the business makes a job analysis for a new job. This includes a job description which entails the general roles and the duties of the job that would be expected day to day and a person spec which considers the type of person that a business wants and the qualifications needed. People then apply then are selected for interviews then the candidate chosen gets induction training.

What is internal recruitment?

When business promotes current employees to fill a job vacancy.

What is an advantage of internal recruitment?

1)That if the business are recruiting internally other staff see that promotion within the business is real. this can lead to higher motivation and hard work from current employees/ high staff retention. This can lower the costs of having to recruit externally because the employee retention would be higher so less people leave.

2)The employees already know the promoted candidate - this means that communications flow more easily, this could lead to higher productivity and quality of service - happy customers.

What is a disadvantage of internal recruitment?

A disadvantage of internal recruitment is that staff who didn’t get promoted could feel discouraged and demotivated - this could lead to lower productivity or even people leaving.

What is external recruitment?

When a business recruits from out of the business.

What are the advantages of external recruitment?

Larger pool of candidates - likely to find more high skilled workers - bring In new ideas - innovation within business - could get competitive advantage in dynamic market.

What are the disadvantage of external recruitment?

The business do not know this candidate as well as current employees - they could be just saying what business want to here in business. risk of hiring the wrong candidate - this could lead to having to do recruitment again which costs the business.

What is Induction training?

The training given to employees when the first start the business.

What is an advantage of induction training?

Induction training gives new employees and insight of the business and sets them along the right tracks of working there - this can can motivate employees and make sure mistakes arent being made.

What are the disadvantages of induction training?

It slows productivity in the long terms as another employee is showing the training could impact quality / production.

What is off the job training?

Off the job training is training that is given external from business training.

Advantage of off the job?

Employees can bring new ideas from their external training Into the business - this can lead to innovation creating a competitive advantage compared to competitors.

what are the disadvantages of off the job training?

It is expensive and an employee may miss work time - slows down production.

What is on the job training?

Training relevant to the business - usually led by a senior employee.

What is an advantage of on the job training?

The training is on what the employee will be doing day to day and relevant to business (cost effective - they work while they learn) can improve quality - process innovation.

What is a disadvantage of on the job training?

mistakes can be made that actually affect quality / production.