Develop Recruitment, Selection and Induction Policies and Procedures

Recruitment, selection, and induction are crucial functions of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM), because these functions help to develop competitive advantage and achieve organisational objectives. One of the biggest challenges that organisations face today is how to attract and retain the best human resources. The human resources function is an element of the strategic planning function of the organisation in view of the importance and value of good staff to the success of any operational activity.  The overall human resource management activities include demand forecasting, supply forecasting, job analysis, preparing job description, developing selection criteria, strategic recruitment, strategic selection, and training and development. The development of recruitment, selection and induction policies and procedures are very important. These policies and procedures will need to be documented and drawn up in the form of guidelines and protocols, which can be referred to by relevant staff for recruitment, selection and induction activities.

Assume you are a human resource manager of a large transport organisation and it has five departments such as customer service, finance, marketing, operations and human resources. Each department has a departmental manager. Currently there are 700 employees. Management has requested a written manual to covers policies and procedures for recruitment, selection and induction activities to cover all staff.

The following information needs to be covered in the manual:

1: Introduction:

a)      An introduction to recruitment, selection, and induction activities.

b)      Definition of policies and procedures.

c)      The importance of effective policies and procedures for recruitment, selection, and induction activities.

2: Policies, procedures and time scale to be covered to the following activities:

a)      Identification of a vacancy. (identifies a vacancy for a position)

b)      Preparing position statement and advertisement

c)      Determine recruitment strategy (method of recruitment)

d)      Establish selection procedures

e)      Short Listing

f)       Selection methodology

g)      Reference check

h)      Selection decision

i)        Make offer

j)        Induction

3: Communication

Effective methods to communicate the proposed policies and procedures to relevant staff and obtain support from management.

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