Recruitment Timeline

  • Needs Analysis.

    This is when a job looks back on the business and figures out where there is a niche area in terms of employment. They look at where they need what kinds of employees and how many of them do they need.
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  • Create job description

    Once they've decided on what kind of job they need to have someone do, they create a job description. This means coming up with what exactly the job will entail.
  • Person attributes

    Here the employer comes up with a list of skills, qualifications, knowledge and attributes that their employee would need in order to perform at a high standard for the job.
  • Advertise job

    At this stage they start spreading the word - advertising that there is help wanted in the business, whether its by word of mouth, social media, newspaper adds, job sites etc.
  • Job search

    This is the stage where job seekers search different mediums trying to find a job description and Person specification that would be suited towards them.
  • CV complications

    This is when a job seeker sets up their CV and collects all bits and pieces needed to form it. At this time an employer could be setting requirments of what they want or recieving CV's already and going over them.
  • Research job

    This is when the job seeker looks more into the job and finds out what exactly is being asked.
  • Apply for job

    When the job seeker is happy with the job role and think that they would fit both Person specification and be happy with the job description they will apply for the role.
  • Collect responses

    This is when the business goes over all the applications they've recieved and discuss who they think would be good for the job, and who they'll call in for interviews.
  • Long list + short list

    After looking at all applications the business comes up with the names of all the people they thought would be good for the job - this is called a long list. Then they look into these applications in more depth and make more informed and precises choices, carefully analysing these people. from this they make a short list.
  • Set interview date

    From the short list, the business will set and send out interview dates to these job seekers who made it on to the short list.
  • Prepare for interview

    Here both the interviewee (the person being interviewed) and the interviewer prepare for the interview. Interviewer coming up with questions that would be appropriate to ask, and interviewee making sure they come prepared and knowledgable about the job.
  • Interview

    Interview takes place.
  • Make a decision + choose

    Once all interviews are over, the businesses look back on all these interviews and juding from that (whoever made the best impresion, most passionate, qualified etc.) someone would be chosen.
  • Acceptance process

    This is when the person accepts the job role and the job offer.
  • Sign contract

    the business supplies the employee with a contract that they must sign, including agreements about the job, what the job includes etc.
  • Job introduction

    This is when the employee gets more introduced to the job. This is likely that they'll either have a sit down session with a professional teaching them about the job and what it involves, or they would sometimes have to do some hands on work to get used to the job and see the kind of stuff you would be doing.
  • Individual appraisal

    Quite a while after the acceptance and the start of the job, the employer would complete an apraisal form just making record of how the employee is doing so far and what there performace is like.