Theme 1 - 4.2 Recruitment

Question 1

What is internal recruitment ?

Answer 1

Workers within the business applying for new position.

Question 2

What is external recruitment ?

Answer 2

Workers outside the business applying for a role.

Question 3

What are the advantages of internal recruitment.

Answer 3

• Cheaper than external recruitment.
• Avoids induction training.
• Skills and attitude already known of employee.

Question 4

What are the disadvantages of internal recruitment ?

Answer 4

• May be demotivating for other employees that did not get the role.
• Workers may not have the skills required that the business needs.
• Creates vacancies elsewhere in the business.
• No new ideas are introduced into the business.

Question 5

What are the advantages of external recruitment ?

Answer 5

• External candidates likely already have skills for job role therefore capital and time is saved.
• Wider range of candidates may lead to more innovative ideas.

Question 6

What are the disadvantages of external recruitment ?

Answer 6

• Can be expensive and time consuming finding external candidates.
• Can be demotivating for other employees that may have wanted that role.

Question 7

What is recruitment ?

Answer 7

A process in which potential employees are identified to fill a job vacancy.

Question 8

What is induction training ?

Answer 8

When new employees are trained in order to make sure they are familiar with the workplace and able to do their job.

Question 9

What is on the job training ?

Answer 9

When an an employee is coached during the job.

Question 10

What are the advantages to on the job training ?

Answer 10

• Learning can be put into practice immediately.
• Less expensive than off the job training.

Question 11

What are the disadvantages of on the job training ?

Answer 11

• Reduces efficiency taking time away from employees jobs in order to train new worker.
• Poorly trained employees may make expensive mistakes.

Question 12

What is off the job training ?

Answer 12

Involves work at home or courses at company training centres.

Question 13

What are the advantages to off the job training ?

Answer 13

• Increased motivation as trainee feels valued by company as they have spent money on their training.
• Courses are created by people specifically to train employees.
• More chance to gather specialist skills.

Question 14

What are the disadvantages to off the job training ?

Answer 14

• Costly as employees are taken away from production.
• Courses expensive.
• employee may fail to see link between workplace and training.