Managing People

In this assignment, I am going to reflect on the interviewing process which I took part in along with my two other peers Douglas & Laura.

Our module leader Val Swales placed us into groups of 3. We firstly started off as a group consisting of myself, Laura & Sean, but then unfortunately a few weeks into the assignment Sean left the course which meant that myself & Laura either worked on our own, or Douglas from another team who was absent until Sean left was accepted into our group. We chose to accept Douglas into our group as it would have been much more difficult for Laura & I and the work load would have been too much.

Due to the fact that Sean left well into the second week, this put more pressure onto myself & Laura as, although we were more than happy to introduce Douglas into our group, we actually ended up a little behind the other peer groups with having to explain to Douglas what we had done & how we had done it. This wasn't much of an issue; it was just more of an inconvenience.

However, we began the assignment by reading the team leader duty paper thoroughly, highlighting key important area's we needed to consider.

After reading the relevant team duties paper we then went onto creating a job description as a group. We each collectively decided upon the key elements that we had all highlighted from the duty sheet & then placed these onto our own job description. The job description functions as a foundation for developing interview questions. This was very useful to use in our scoring charts which I will discuss during this reflection. http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/managingemployees/a/stepjobdescript.htm

From then on, we created a person specification. This was listed as a requirement during the recruitment & selection process as it is a profile of the ideal candidate for the job. It lists the criteria necessary to carry out the job.

An advertisement for the post was also created, this again was an important criteria needed as without this, potential candidates would not be aware of the Team Leader job being advertised. As a group we tried to make this advertisement as colourful & clear as possible, however the advertisement only needed to be very brief. This was produced by editing the standard template to a structured Darlington College theme. This theme was attempted throughout the process which you can see within the pack that I have included. The job advertisement was quite time consuming as we took into consideration the important factors of the advert. For example, in order for the advert to inspire potential candidates we needed to include key, bold words. One of the most important factors was to differentiate the advert from others so that it inspired candidates to take an interest. We also decided as a team, that in the event of this