1. HFT 2220 Recruitment

2. Recruitment More than posting “Help Wanted” signs The four facet approach to recruitment, selection and retention –Hire the right people –Provide orientation –Teach necessary skills –Instill appropriate behaviors

3. The Pre-Recruitment Process Review job analysis process Identify applicable laws What message do you want to convey? What do you want to learn from recruits? Recruit internally or externally?

4. The Pre-Recruitment Process Where to recruit? Select recruiters Select and implement recruiting strategies Establish evaluation criteria –Applicants –Recruiting methods

5. Internal Recruiting Advantages –Improves morale –Better assessment of recruits –Succession of promotions –Lower cost –Reduces training costs Disadvantages –Promotes inbreeding of ideas –Morale problems –Political overtones –Departmental gaps

6. External Recruiting Advantages –New ideas –See the “outside world” –Fresh eyes look –Sometimes cheaper –Avoid politics –Advertising Disadvantages –Find a good “fit” –Morale problems –Longer job orientation –Lower productivity –Politics & personality conflicts

7. Online Recruiting Company website Online resume databases Online resume forwarding service Employment classified ads Chat rooms & network services

8. Safe Recruiting Practices Need to avoid discrimination or even the appearance of such In all advertising and recruitment materials, statements and questions must have a “BFOQ”

9. What You Cannot Say Specific age limits Sex characteristics Racial traits or characteristics National origin Religious preference Physical characteristics Geographic areas

10. What You Can Say One rule: All qualifications or characteristics must be job related –Write a clearly worded description of the job you are trying to fill –Write a list of specific qualifications or characteristics essential for proper job performance –Word the ad to reflect both the job description and qualification characteristics

11. Job Profile Job Description –Clear statement of job objectives and the means for achieving them Position Pay grade level Reports to Supervises Primary tasks Essential functions Skills needed Recruiting Guide –Tells you or anyone else what you are looking for in an employee and why you need it

12. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title IEmployment Title IIPublic services Title IIIPublic accommodations Title IVTelecommunications Title VMiscellaneous

13. Title I Requires that businesses provide “reasonable” accommodations to protect the rights of persons with disabilities in all areas of employment “Reasonable accommodation” – A modification or adjustment to a job, employment practice or work environment that enables a qualified individual with a disability to participate in and enjoy equal employment opportunity. Cannot create undue hardship

14. Disabled Person An individual who has –A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity –Has a record of such impairment –Is perceived as having such an impairment

15. What you Cannot do Limit or segregate an individual Use standards that discriminate Exclude because of the disability Fail to make “reasonable accommodation” Use qualification standards unless they are job related Require medical examinations

16. Questions to Avoid History of mental health treatment Listing of diseases or major illnesses Disabilities, impairments or impediments Hospitalization history Days absent from work Workers compensation history List of prescription medicines History of treatment for drug abuse or alcoholism

17. What you can do Use your best judgment in writing a functional job description Adopt policies and procedures Adopt policies regarding health and safety issues Adopt policies regarding drug and alcohol use Post notices

18. Questions?