Recruitment and Selection

Gareth Roberts

ISBN 10: 1843981173 / ISBN 13: 9781843981176

Published by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London England, 2010

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Paperback. Recruitment and Selection. How often does your receruitment anf 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 f all other HR activity. Get it wrong and it doesn't matter how good your development programme is, how ell you motivate your staff, how you manage their performance, or even how ell you reward them, you are always making up for that one bad decision. It is also one of your principal points of cntact wuth line managers: deliver a less than perfect performance there and your chances of being tsken seriously as a strategic business partner has gone. Get it right, however, and you can transform a mundane, everyday HR process into a chance to improve your organisation's performance by improving 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. 214 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recruitment and Selection
• Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London England
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843981173
• ISBN 13: 9781843981176
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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 it. Do that and your line 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.

About the Author

Gareth Roberts is an HR consultant specialising in pay, performance and selection. Before setting up his own consultancy Gareth held several high level HR management positions in both the private and public sector. He lectures at the Civil Service College and is a member of the Employment Tribunal.