Higher National Certificate/Diploma in Business

Assignment Brief
Student Name /ID Number
Unit Number and Title 13: Recruitment and Selection in Business Issues.
Academic Year 2019-2021
Unit Tutor Zunaira Raza
Assignment Title
Issue Date
Submission Date
IV Name & Date Muhammad Ali
Submission Format

The submission is in the form of an individual written report. This should be written in a concise,
formal business style using single spacing and font size 12. You are required to make use of
headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work must be supported with
research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system. Please also provide a bibliography
using the Harvard referencing system. The recommended word limit is 3500 words, although you
will not be penalized for exceeding the total word limit.

Unit Learning Outcomes

LO1 Know the processes involved in recruitment planning

LO2 Understand the importance of the regulatory framework for the process of recruitment and
selection.
LO3 Be able to prepare documentation involved in the selection and recruitment process
LO4 Be able to participate in a selection interview.
Assignment Brief and Guidance

Scenario
Task-1

You are working for a recruitment agent in your selected organisation. Your company has been
requested by a secondary school to allow their students to visit the company office as a part of
their educational visit to local businesses. The school has requested the recruitment agency to
brief the students on the concepts of job vacancy and recruitment process. Your boss has selected
you as the facilitator for the visiting students and their teachers. You have been instructed to
prepare an information pack entitled: Job Vacancy - The Recruitment and Selection Process.

Organization includes:
1- Amazon
2- E-bay
3- Tesco
4- Apple Inc.

P1. Identify how two organisations plan recruitment using internal and external sources

P2. Explain the impact of the legal and regulatory framework on recruitment and
selection activities.

Task-2: Selection

You have now been given the added responsibility as a HR assistant to a retail group. This
company is planning to recruit some Sales Assistants for their shops across UK. Your boss has
asked you to perform the following tasks:

P3. Prepare the documents used in selection and recruitment activities

M1. Compare the purposes of the different documents used in the selection and
 recruitment process of a given organisation

D1. Evaluate the usefulness of the documents in the interview pack for a given
organisation, in facilitating the interview process

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Task 3:

You have now been tasked to engage directly in the selection process by planning the selection
interview session for the short listed applicants and take part in the selection process as an HR
assistant.

Analyse your contribution to the selection process and evaluate your experience of planning and
participating in the recruitment and selection process.

P4. Plan to take part in a selection interview

P5. Take part in a selection interview

M2. Analyse your contribution to the selection process in a given situation.

D2. Evaluate your experience of planning and participating in the recruitment and selection
process.

GRADING CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOME PASS MERIT DISTINCTION

LO P1 describe the M1 Analyze LO1 & 2

1 recruitment different sources D1 Critically
documentation used of innovation, and analyze how
in a selected how organizations innovation is
organisation. can foster and developed,
develop an embedded and
P2 describe the main environment and measured in an
employability, culture of organizational
personal and innovation. context.
communication
skills required when
applying for a
specific job role
[RL]
describe the main M2 analyze and
LO2 physical and apply the innovation
technological funnel in an
resources required in organizational
the operation of a context.
selected organisation M3 Evaluate the
role of frugal
P4 describe sources innovation in an
of internal and organizational
external finance for a context.
selected business
LO P5 interpret the M4 Build a detailed
3 contents of Innovation Business
a trading and Case which includes
profit and loss how to measure its
account and overall effectiveness
balance sheet for a using appropriate
selected company. techniques available
P6 illustrate the to test, iterate and
use of budgets as a improve.
means of
exercising
financial control
of a selected
company.
LO P7 illustrate the M5 Present
4 financial state supported
of a given evidence-based
business.. evaluation of these
different tools in
the context of the
wider business
environment.