Description
How often does your recruitment and selection process get it right? Have you ever thought to yourself 'My life would be a lot easier if we'd never taken this one on'?
Recruitment and selection is the foundation of all other HR activity. Get it wrong and it doesn't matter how good your development programme is, how well you motivate your staff, how you manage their performance, or even how well you reward them - you are always making up for that one bad decision.
It is also one of your principal points of contact with line managers - deliver a less than perfect performance there and your chances of being taken seriously as a strategic business partner will be pretty slim.
Get it right, however, and you can transform a mundane, everyday HR process into a chance to improve your organisation's performance by improving the quality of the people you're asking to deliver that performance. Do that and your line managers and senior management colleagues will sit up and take notice.
Gareth Roberts shows you how to improve your recruitment, selection and induction processes so that you stand a better chance of making the right choice more often.
Contents
PART 1: OVERVIEW
The Importance of Selection
Using the Book
The Selection Process
PART 2: MANAGING THE PROCESS
Strategy
Management
Systems & Support Processes
Using the Right Tools and Techniques
PART 3: FINDING PEOPLE
Defining Requirements
Role Analysis
Choosing the Labour Market
Attracting People
PART 4: CHOOSING PEOPLE
Screening
Interviewing
Psychological Testing
Graphology
Assessment Centres
PART 5: GETTING IT RIGHT
Decision-making
Checks and Offers
Equal Opportunities and Discrimination
Starting-up
Measurement and Evaluation
About the authors
Gareth Roberts
Gareth Roberts is a consultant in human resource management and has assisted many organisations in development of competency frameworks, and related approaches to pay, performance, and selection. Prior to this consulting role, he worked in senior human resource roles in Lloyds Bank, Warner-Lambert Confectionery, Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals and the Health Service. He lectures at the Civil Service College and is a member of the Employment Tribunal.