This practical 1-day course covers the key aspects of recruitment and selection and reviews the effect of employment law throughout the recruitment process.

Personnel managers, line managers, officers and administrators with responsibility for dealing with employment issues in the workplace. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge and experience.

By the end of the module, participants will be able to:

• understand the law relating to recruitment and selection
  
• advise on how to handle recruitment issues practically and according to best practice
  
• determine whether their organisation's recruitment and selection documentation, policies and procedures measure up to the legal requirements

1. Right person – right job

• job descriptions, person specifications, application forms
  
• advertising
  
• staying within the law
  
• do's and don'ts of the recruitment process

2. Before starting work

• offers: oral and written
  
• references and medicals
  
• avoiding illegal working
  
• criminal convictions
  
• work permits and visas

3. Establishing good working practices – how to deal with:

• race, sex and disability, sexual orientation, religion and belief, age and gender reassignment discrimination
  
• direct and indirect discrimination in the recruitment process
  
• reasonable adjustments
  
• equal pay
  
• data protection issues