CIPD Level 3 RT0

Recruitment is the process of attracting, screening and hiring people or a person for a job. The attracting process of recruitment is where the business advertises the available job vacancies for a period of time. Once the deadline of the advertisement has arrived, the business collects up all the CV’s from the applicants and they are all checked off against the person specification. This is where the applications are selected by the business, the selected applications are then invite by the business for an interview and from there they are able to decide whether they are suited for the job.

Recruitment can incur a very large cost to an employer, therefore, organizations try to uses the method of recruitment which will have the lowest cost impact to the organization for each candidate.

* A review of three different recruitment methods that can be used, and when it is appropriate to use them.

Recruitment refers to hiring a best qualified person for a job opening in a cost efficient and timely manner. This process comprises evaluating the job requirement, attracting the candidates, screening and short listing the qualified applicants, employing and incorporating them with new teams. Talent is the most important assert for any business. Talent Management, which includes recruitment, is a crucial part for any organization’s growth (Limor, 2013).

Recruitment agencies are popular but unlike the Job Centre’s they charge commission for recruiting staff on a temporary or permanent basis. This means that the employer may have a chance to see how an employee is likely to work out by putting them on a three, six, twelve-month fix term contract initially. This is

Workers will also work to the terms of a contract, they will usually carry out the work personally. Workers will include casual work, agency work, freelance work and seasonal work. Workers are entitled to some employment rights including, national minimum wage, holiday pay, protection against unlawful discrimination, the right not to be treated less favourably if they work part-time. See point 2 Appendix

To identify and assess at least 4 factors that affect an organisation’s approach to attracting talent

Identify and assess at least 4 factors that affect an organization’s approach to attracting talent.

Recruitment agencies: provides employers with details of suitable candidates for a vacancy. They work for a fee and often specialise in particular employment areas.

It is important to identify the skills needed for new roles. This can be done by creating a job description for the role in questions. Furthermore, an organisation can identify, through the job description, whether the skills already exist within the organisation or if it is necessary for external recruitment.

For an organisation to attract talent successfully, as part of the talent planning policy it needs to identify and assess what factors affect its approach to attracting talent. For example:

1. There are many different factors that affect an organisation’s approach to attract talent. The list below includes some of them.

During the recent past however, when the company became a more dominant global competitor and a publicly traded conglomerate, the numbers of employees leaving the firm have increased, generating adjacent problems of employee recruitment, training and retention. In other words, the major challenges currently faced by the company are related to talent management. At a more specific level, the issues refer to the following:

Employees today are also aware of their importance and the shortages of talent supply that is why focusing on sourcing talent or recruitment is at utmost importance of the organisation. More importantly, as an organisation sourcing for talent, it is a must to ensure positive experience reflected on the organisation’s values, are felt by the applicants all throughout the recruitment process to ensure that the applicants maintain its high perception to the company and as such, the applicants may then refer other talents to the organisation. Doing so, enables the organisation to set its brand which is now, one of the most important considerations of applicants in accepting the job offer.

As heavily regulated industries become more mature in a world where knowledge spreads quickly and technology advancements are imitated by competitors there is little to separate their cost bases. One area of competitive advantage is the attitudes and behaviours of the workforce. As such the topics of recruitment selection, talent management and retention strategies will be addressed. These three issues are intertwined and it will be argued that if accomplished successfully with the organisations strategic objectives in mind will deliver business success.