Recruiting people
Overview
Finding and successfully recruiting the right staff is a challenge for any organisation, and is the most frequently reported barrier to growth amongst SMEs. CIPD reports that 85% of organisations report recruitment difficulties, chiefly a lack of specialist skills or relevant experience. Employers are therefore being forced to recruit people who have potential to develop, but who do not currently fully meet the needs of the role.
Profile introduces a specific focus on recruitment and selection in your organisation, and explores how you ensure the organisation recruits the right people, fairly, from the widest pool of available talent.
At its most stretching, it challenges you to consider how your approach to recruitment reflects your wider business strategy. For example, it challenges top managers to consider the future resource needs of the organisation and address issues of succession planning.
Ensuring new people settle into the organisation effectively is another focus. Profile explores how the organisation ensures new recruits share the organisation’s values – building on the requirement for effective induction which is part of the Standard. To ensure that existing team members welcome and support new colleagues, at Level 4 Profile looks at the involvement teams have had in selecting people, and how their views have been taken into account.
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