Upskilling Opportunities

Module Content:  Know how to plan to recruit and select new staff in the workplace -Identify an organisation’s policies and procedures that could guide the manager in recruitment and selection -Explain how to conduct a job analysis and prepare a job description and person specification for an identified post Know how to select the right person -Explain how a manager would prepare for selection interviews to ensure impartiality and optimum decision making in selecting the most suitable applicant -Explain a recognised selection technique that could be used during interviews Indicative Content: -Own organisational recruitment policies and procedures -Basic legal aspects of recruitment -Simple techniques for job analysis -How to prepare job descriptions and person specifications -Range of methods of advertising vacancies, internally and externally, and how to select the most appropriate for a variety of posts -The relative merits of internal and external applications -Use of job descriptions and person specifications to shortlist applicants -Preparation for selection interviews to ensure impartiality and optimum decision -Selection interviewing techniques -Alternative methods for selecting the most suitable applicant Module Assessment Learners must sumit a mandatory assignment on module completion. This must be completed within 2 weeks of module completion.