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Recruitment and Selection
UoS Code WORK6031
Credit points 6
Offered Semester 2
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Lectures 39 hours in Intensive mode
Assessment Continuous: Essays, case studies and/or exam
Description This unit examines the purpose and importance of recruitment and selection as a key human resource management function. Specific themes covered include the relationship between recruitment and other human resource management functions, especially staff selection, internal and external sources of recruitment, recruitment methods (advertising, agencies, headhunting), outsourcing as an alternative to recruitment, assessing recruitment effectiveness, legal issues in recruitment, and recruitment and workforce diversity.