Recruitment and selection guidelines, including information on advertising a position, establishing an interview panel and interviewing candidates.

Effective recruitment is fundamental to attracting, recruiting and retaining high-calibre employees. Some of the benefits of effective recruitment are:

• quality information about candidates enables good decision-making
• candidates recruited are a good fit with the organisation and the role
• improved customer service as a result of quality hires
• costs associated with employee turnover are reduced
• less investment in training is required if suitably qualified and experienced people are recruited.

Templates

See the Recruitment and Selection Guidelines on page 4 of our People management toolkit and the following templates that are relevant to the recruitment process:

• Recruitment and interview guidelines
• Job description
• Sample individual employment agreement
• Sample fixed term employment agreement
• Sample independent contractor agreement
• Sample casual employment agreement
• Sample letter for candidate not short-listed
• Sample letter for short-listed candidate
• Sample covering letter - offer of employment
• Application form.