9.1. Employee Recruitment

Recruitment is the procedure that encompasses advertising job vacancies, conducting candidate interviews, and ultimately choosing qualified professionals for employment.

Typically overseen by the relevant Manager or HR personnel, a sound recruitment process can aid candidates in making well-informed career choices and assist in refining hiring procedures.

If your charity hires paid staff, there will need to be clarity about their role. Developing a position description for the role your charity is looking to fill with a paid employee will help to achieve this.

The position description should provide an overview of the role, and include things such as the job title, a summary of the role and the charity, the employment type (full-time, part-time, casual), and the key responsibilities of the role.

The position description can also include the required or desired skills, knowledge, experience, or education your charity might want from those applying for the role.

Your charity will need to think about its recruitment process – how it will advertise the role, the selection criteria it will use to decide on the successful applicant, and how candidates will be assessed.

Business.gov.au outlines the steps for recruiting employees that your charity can follow.

For further information

• Fair Work Hiring Employees
• Busiess.gov – Hiring Employees Checklist
• Seek Hiring Process
  

Refer to SLSQ Administration Operations Manual for further information on recruitment.