HRM - Recruitment and Selection

This resource focuses on the personnel processes of recruitment and selection. It is still at a "draft" stage and the reader needs to be aware of its thinness in places and the need for it to be better organised.

To start with a definition,

Recruitment is taken to be the overall activity, with selection the decision stage, of choosing suitable applicants for a job or jobs.

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• Recruitment Practice vs. Theory
• Lines of Research
• Competent to Recruit/Select?
• Recruitment Stages
  • Job Analysis and Job Information
    Job descriptions, personnel specifications, exit interviews, the content of a job prospectus, defining job selection criteria and the discrimination trap
  • Job Advertising
  • Recruitment and Information Processing

• The Selection Process
  Purposes, interview organisation, processes and skills. The WASP Mnemonic. Interpersonal judgments. Reliability, validity and utility - problems of objectivising the interview process. Use of ability and psychometric tests. Assessment centre appraches - assault and battery.

• A simple interviewing exercise
• Self-study/Tutorial Assignments

• Taking up References
• The Selection Decision
• Signing 'em on, finalising contracts of employment
• the job induction programme.

• Exploiting Flexibility - Part-time and Short-term Contracts
• Recruitment and Equal Opportunities
• The Glass Ceiling

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