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Attract, Recruit & Select

> Attracting employees / Recruiting employees / Selecting employees

Thinking about how you attract, recruit and select your employees will improve your chances of appealing to the best employees in a tight labour market. What’s more, your business will develop more smoothly if you attract the right staff from the beginning. You will also reduce costs in relation to recruitment, training, development and performance management. You will also save time in the long term.

When you clearly establish the activities associated with each role in your business, and the skills required, you can develop an effective recruitment program to ensure you select the right employee for the job.

Checklist

Attract, Recruit & Select checklist This checklist summarises key information about attracting, recruiting and selecting employees. You can adjust this document to suit your own needs.

Attracting employees

You’ll attract the best employees to your business if you offer an attractive collection of benefits and maintain a reputation as an excellent employer.

Consider widening your pool of potential candidates to include:

• different ethnic and cultural groups
• generational differences
• mothers returning to work
• mature aged workers.

Collection of benefits

There’s more to attracting good employees than just offering good pay. Look at the benefits you, and your competitors, offer. Could you come up with some different or better benefits that would suit your employees?

Click different areas of the figure below to learn more about different types of benefits.

See Retain and Support and Motivate, Manage and Reward Performance for more information about the different types of benefits you can offer your employees.

Reputation and branding

Is your business known to be a good place to work?

A positive reputation and brand will make your business more attractive, so you will be able to select from a bigger pool of candidates.

Factsheet

Building a good employer brand fact sheet This fact sheet has some tips on developing a positive image as an employer.

Your business and the community

Job seekers will be more strongly attracted to a business that is known for being socially responsible. What can your business do to become more involved with community issues and events?

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* Packer, S 2007, ‘The right moves’, HR Monthly, Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI), July.