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Unit 7: Recruitment and Selection
QCF Level: 5
Credit value: 5 credits
Aim
This unit provides the learner with the understanding and skills needed to manage the recruitment and selection process to ensure the appointment of suitable personnel.
Unit abstract
The success of organisations depends, in part, on employing the right people. The recruitment and selection process aims to ensure that personnel of the right calibre with suitable expertise and experience are selected to fill vacancies. How organisations establish that they have a staffing requirement that needs to be met is identified in this unit. Job analyses will specify the skills, expertise and capacity that are required.
Staff costs are significant and organisations manage this by making a business case for employing additional people. Organisations need to ensure that the processes and procedures involved in recruitment and selection, in addition to meeting organisational needs, are lawful and comply with internal organisational policies, which themselves have to incorporate legal requirements.
The process of selecting candidates needs to be organised and planned since structured recruitment and selection procedures are central to ensuring suitable personnel are appointed. Organisations with effective recruitment and selection processes and practices in place will make good appointments. In competitive labour markets this is a major advantage, so to maintain that advantage the selection and recruitment processes need to be reviewed and modified should improvements be identified and required. By considering the topics of recruitment and selection learners will understand how having the right staff contributes to the achievement of organisational purposes.
Learning Outcomes
To achieve this unit a learner must:
1 Be able to analyse personnel requirements for job vacancies
2 Understand how employment legislation affects the recruitment of personnel
3 Be able to participate in recruitment and selection activities
4 Be able to propose improvements to recruitment and selection processes in an organisation.
