BTEC First Award Business
Unit 8 Recruitment, Selection and Employment
Below you can find a collection of resources that should help you with your knowledge and understanding of the Recruitment, Selection and Employment unit of your BTEC studies.
This unit will be based on coursework so you need to ensure that you are ready and prepared for you coursework as good performance in this unit is critical to achieving your highest possible grade in your Business Studies course.
Learning Aims;
- A Know about job roles and functional areas in business
- B Produce documentation for specific job roles
- C Demonstrate interview skills and plan career development
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A.1 Organisational Structures and Functional Areas |
Learners should: ● Different organisational structures e.g. hierarchical, flat, matrix, functional, divisional ● Functional areas, e.g. sales, production, purchasing, administration, customer service, distribution, finance, human resources, ICT, marketing, research and development (R&D) ● Purposes of functional areas in supporting business aims and objectives ● Links between functional areas, including relationships and interactions with other functional areas |
Organisational Stucture Types Worksheet Organisational Structure Recap (Starter) Organisational Structure / Functional Areas Research Activity BeePhone Functional Areas and Organisational Structure Activity |
Organisational Structures Types Quiz |
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A.2 Job roles and responsibilites |
Learners should: ● Directors, e.g. looking after interests of shareholders, deciding policy or strategy ● Senior managers, e.g. motivating staff, target setting, recruitment and dismissal, allocating work, communicating, planning and decision making, problem solving ● Supervisors or team leaders, e.g. managing staff or small teams, motivating, allocating tasks ● Operational and support staff/assistants, e.g. day-to-day general work and administration duties ●Impact on roles of different organisational structures |
Team Leader / Supervisor Job Description
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B.1 Recruitment |
Learners should: ● Reasons why a vacancy arises in a business, e.g. employee leaving, high staff turnover, extra work (such as growth of the business), sickness, different job roles required, maternity and paternity cover ● Ways of recruiting staff, e.g. job centres, consultants, recruitment agencies, from within the business itself, advertising ● Types of recruitment, including: o internal or external o identifying issues with internal and external recruitment ●Cost and legal considerations of recruitment, e.g. equal opportunities |
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B.2 Developing a Job Description and Personal Specification |
learners should: ● Methods, including: o developed by relevant department staff, e.g. staff create a description of what the job entails and the qualities required o developed by current job holder o interviewing current job holder to find out what is involved and qualities requiredof the new recruit
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B.3 Contents of a Job Description |
Learners should: ●Contents may include: otitle, location, description of organisation’ business opurpose of job, main tasks, essential and desirable requirements, lines of reporting opay and benefits, promotion prospects ostart date obasis, e.g. full-/part-time, secondment, maternity cover, fixed-term contract
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B.4. Contents of a Person Specification |
Learners should: ●Contents may include: o attainments, e.g. qualifications, membership of professional bodies o competency profiles, e.g. what the candidate should be able to do o special aptitudes or skills, e.g. numeracy, problem solving o essential and desirable attributes, e.g. previous relevant experience and product knowledge, relevant interests o disposition, e.g. leadership qualities o circumstances, e.g. mobile or not
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B.5. Applying for jobs |
● Requirements may include: o application forms o curriculum vitae (CV) o letters of application oother requirements, e.g. copies of qualification certificates, Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check o pre-application tests, e.g. online psychometric tests, physical fitness test, sight test, health checks ●Next steps after applying for a job, e.g. shortlisting, invitation to interview or assessment centre, feedback |
Applying for a Job and Skills Audit |
Recruitment, Selection and Employment Starter Quiz |
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C.1. Job Interviews |
● Before the interview: o preparation and research into the business and the job role o preparation of questions to ask, question anticipation o preparing for interviews, e.g. appropriate dress, good personal hygiene, location, travel arrangements, arrive in plenty of time ●Behaviour during the interview, e.g. displaying confidence, appropriate body language (such as maintaining eye contact), tone and clarity of voice, active listening, showing interest |
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C.2. Personal Audit |
● A personal audit may include an assessment of own: o knowledge o skills, e.g. technical, practical, communication, numeracy o interests ● Matching knowledge and skills: o to job opportunities ofor use in career planning |
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C.3. Career development |
● Information and advice, including: o sources of information and advice, e.g. careers advice services, advertisements, word-of-mouth, careers fairs, friends and family, teachers, previous employers, network connections o employment and government agencies ● Developing a career plan: o choosing between an academic or vocational pathway, e.g. full-time further or higher education, work-based learning (including NVQs and apprenticeships) o full- or part-time employment o training needs, development plans, personal targets o professional |
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