Recruiting and Inducting New Employees

Successful businesses all depend on having good staff with the talent and aptitude to fulfil the roles for which they are employed. Ensuring a fair and thorough recruitment process is essential to finding the right candidates for jobs and so sustain and grow your operations. A well-executed and documented recruitment process helps to minimise hiring mistakes and increases the likelihood of hiring employees who are a good fit for the role and the company culture. Documented processes, procedures and engagement will also help to ensure the business is compliant with best pratice, as well as legal requirements such as equality and discrimination and data protection.

What documents are required in the Recruitment Process?

To facilitate the recruitment process the Employment subscription provides a range of templates including:

• Selection of recruitment policies that set out the company's approach to employing the most appropriate employees in a fair and consistent manner, free from discrimination
• Guidance notes on carrying out right-to-work checks
• Job description forms to help define the job role, its responsibilities, and the skills, qualifications, and experience necessary for success in the position
• Job application forms to ease the assessment of each application against the specification of the job description
• Interview guidelines on the preparation, structure, content and conduct of an interview with due regard to the Equality Act 2010, assessment of interviews and letters to ease communication with interviewees.

Having identified the right candidate make a formal offer of employment: Employment Offer Letters

Induction and Onboarding of New Employees

Effective induction and onboarding processes help employees settle quickly into their roles, improve employee retention and overall workplace satisfaction. 

• Requesting references for new employees
• Forms and induction documents to assist in onboarding new employees
• Data Protection Policies and Notices for new (and existing) employees through the application, interview and employment process
• Equal Opportunity Policies, guidelines and forms to document and maintain diversity and equality in the workplace.

A thorough and planned recruitment process is essential to finding the right candidates.  Fairness, consistency and adherence to legal standards should be prioritised throughout the process. For requisite documentation please click on the links below:

• Recruitment Document Templates
• Onboarding New Employees
• Employee Data Protection
• Equal Opportunity and Diversity

Recruiting and Inducting New Employees is part of Employment. Just £35.00 + VAT provides unlimited downloads from Employment for 1 year.