It's essential that you use your organization's policies and procedures as the framework for your recruitment and selection activities.

Recruitment involves:

1. Deciding if there is a vacancy to be filled

2. Writing a job description

3. Writing a person specification

4. Deciding on the selection process

5. Attracting applicants

6. Managing the response.

Before you write a job description:

1. Analyse the job

2. Analyse what's happening in the organization.

A person specification sets out the skills, knowledge and experience needed to do the job. Each item on a person specification must be justified by the job description.

By carefully selecting where you advertise you can increase the diversity of applicants.

Make sure you have a mechanism in place for handling the response created by advertising the post.

Make sure that your recruitment practices are not only fair but also encourage diversity.