UNIT 08 SELECTION & RECRUITMENT PROCESS
P1 Explain how a large business recruits and selects giving reasons for their
processes.
Produce a written document to describe how your selected organisation recruit their
new staff. In the document you should:
1. Provide brief description of the organisation’s activities.
2. Provide information about their workforce planning.
3. Explain what recruitment and selection is? Give a description of some of the
job roles within your organisation.
4. Explain what is internal recruitment? How your selected organisation attract
staff internally? (Email, notice board, staff meeting, promotion opportunities)
5. What external sources your selected organisation use to recruit? (Website,
job centre, consultants, and recruitment agencies etc.)
6. Identify key reasons why vacancies occur at your chosen organisation. You
may include reasons e.g.
a) Existing employee leaving: retirement, sick leave, maternity &
paternity leave, internal progression
b) Expansion/Extra work - new sites opening for the
organisation/existing sites expanded
c) New technology
d) Change in work pattern e.g. increase in part time work.
e) High turnover/Seasonal work.
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P2
Explain how and why a business follows the recruitment processes
which are ethical and comply with current employment law.
Using the same report include the following:
1. Include selection and recruitment process flow chart for your organisation.
Flow chart is available on Moodle: lesson 4 and ASDA case study.
2. Identify and explain all 7 stages of the recruitment flow chart (for example job
analysis, job description etc.)
3. Discuss further why it’s important for your selected business to follow
this recruitment process. Discuss consequences of not using/missing these key
stages from the recruitment process for example what if job description is missing?
UNIT 08 SELECTION & RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Or what if organisation doesn’t shortlist candidates for interview? Would they be able
to interview all applicants applied for the post?
4. Explain why it’s important for your chosen organisation to follow current equal
opportunities legislation with regard to gender, age, race, disability, minimum wage
during the recruitment process. Make sure you identify 9 protected characteristics
that the Equality Act covers.What issues can arise if all current legislation are not
followed by your chosen organisation. Provide example; what if a business mention
specific age/gender in their job advertisement? Discuss its impact on the recruitment
process and organisation itself.
5. Explain what is National Minimum Wage Rate? Provide current 2017 wage
rate. Why it’s important for your chosen organisation to follow this; discuss
consequences if they pay their employees less than NMWR.
6. What is RIGHT to Work in the UK? What steps a business should take to
make sure that they are employing people with legal permission to work here.
Discuss consequences if a business doesn’t practice this.
7. Explain why recruitment processes have to be ethical. Few ethical
considerations are:
 Being honest in an advertisement
 The maintenance of confidentiality
 Ensuring the same questions are asked to all candidates interviewed
 Same criteria used for all applicants/candidates
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Disclosure if family or friends work for the same business.
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Gender and ethnic balance on interview panels
Note: For more understanding please see the next page,
PASS MERIT AND DISTINCTION CRITERIA explained by
Edexcel.
UNIT 08 SELECTION & RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Complete a SWOT analysis on your performance in
role in the interviewing activities.