Recruitment

job analysis: a systematic study of each employee’s duties, tasks and work environment

The role of a job analysis:

  1. Job description: a job description is a written statement that outlines the employee’s duties, tasks, and responsibilities associated with the job role.

  2. Job specification: a job specification is a list of the key qualificiations that are needed to perform a particular job in terms of education, skills, knowledge, and level of experience.


internal vs. external recruitment

how do we recruit new employees:

Internal: the process of filling open jobs or vaccancies by promoting or transferring existing employees wihtin a company rather than hiring externally.

  • internet posting

  • existing staff records

  • promotion

  • notic boards

  • word of mouth and recommendations

  • email

External: the process of sourcing and hiring candidates from outside of the business.

  • job (seek, indeed)

  • agency

  • word of mouth

  • flyers

  • social media posts

  • business websites - careers


Training:

training vs. development

  1. the process of teaching staff how to perform their job more efficiently and effectively by boosting their knowledge and skills.

  2. refers to activities that prepare staff to tak egreater responsibility in the future. Personal growth, leadership, etc.

types of training:

  • off the job: tafe, courses, university

  • on the job: provided by a coworker or leader about specific job skills

  • action learning: learning by experience solving real workplace problems

  • competency-based trainingL identifies skill strecnths and areas where further training is required

  • online trianing (or eLearning): delivered through online modules. This makes it easy for users to learn anytime, anywhere with few restricitons

  • job rotationL the meployee experiences many differerent aspects of a business, learning and applying skill sin different areas.

  • mentoring: th emeployee is able to gain experienceand skills form another person.