Recruiting staff

Having the right person in the right place at the right time is crucial to an organisation's success. Having robust recruitment and retention processes will:

• decrease the staff turnover and therefore eliminate the costs incurred of recruiting new staff
• increase employee motivation and productivity
• decrease staff absence
• mean you recruit suitable staff who have a clear idea of what to expect and who know what they are doing.

On these pages you find a range of support and resources available to help up with the recruitment of staff and handling any employment issues:

• Advertising your job vacancies
• Your complete recruitment and retention guide
• Complying with safer recruitment guidlines

Business Link

Employing staff can be a problem for many settings especially where employment has been adhoc and informal. Difficulties sometimes arise through a lack of clarity in understanding of what employees and employers are expected to do.

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has a very useful website incorporating an Employer’s Charter giving comprehensive guidance on a variety of issues including:

• Leave entitlements
• Maternity leave
• Redundancy
• Working time regulations
• Career planning
• Performance management and employment contracts

Visit the Business Link website