Finalising the recruitment strategy

The final steps in the recruitment process include:

• Complete Candidate Rating and Select Successful Candidate
• Check References for the Successful Candidate
• Make verbal employment offer to Successful Candidate.
• Notify unsuccessful candidates – In Writing
• Issue Employment Contract to new employee
• Draw up Induction & Probation Procedures

Committing time and resources to develop a comprehensive effective recruitment strategy is a worthwhile investment. Poor recruitment choices such as poor person-job fit can have a range of undesirable consequences for your business and the employees themselves including:

• Higher rates of turnover
• Reduced performance effectiveness
• Lowered job satisfaction
• Reduced work motivation

Exercise:

- Draft a Job & Person Specification for a job-role relevant to your work

- Establish the Role Competencies & Devise Rating System – for each job-role interview candidate 

- Jot down five (5) things that you’ve learned today and that stuck-out in your mind.