Recruitment and Selection:
Getting It Right
Gerard McMahon
If the success of the organisation ultimately depends on its employees, then the selection task is arguably the most important of all the decision-making processes that employers and their line managers have to make.
If you haven't recruited the right team, or promoted the right person to lead it, your organisation will suffer. Four in every five Irish Personnel managers recently admitted that they would change up to half their workforce tomorrow if they could. This briefing attempts to address this issue by providing a down-to-earth guide covering all the practical, people and legal skills association with effective recruitment and selection.
Topics covered include:
- What are the best questions to ask at interview?
- What are the legal pitfalls in job ads, job application forms, selection tests and references?
- Do you know who or what you?re looking for?
- Where do you look for the "right" staff?
- How do you design an application form?
- How many interviews and interviewers should you have?
- Selection tests: what are they and how useful are they?
- How should you handle a "bad" reference?
- How should "medicals" be handled?
- When should you make an "offer of employment"?
- What's the situation with "probationary periods"?
- How do you give the unsuccessful candidate feedback?
- How have so many organisations broken the law in this area?
Many of Ireland's most reputable employers have found themselves in murky legal waters for the manner in which they have handled their recruitment and selection activities. They include Ryanair, Iarnrod Eireann, Superquinn, the Revenue Commissioners, Pan American Airways, Trinity College and University College Dublin, the Coombe Hospital, the Mater Hospital, Gateaux Ltd., Independent Newspapers.
Recruitment and Selection is aimed at Human Resource professionals and any manager who wants to ensure their organization gets, and keeps, the right people.
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€40, pb
ISBN 1-86076-241-7
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