Effectiveness of Recruitment and Selection Strategies in Tesco

HRM Report
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1

MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
Effectiveness of recruitment and selection strategies in an organisations.............................1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................5
How the chosen business manages the development of its employees, different talent
management strategies and responsibilities of the employees as well as employers.............5
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
HR systems and processes within TESCO.............................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management is one of the most important components for an
organization. It is primarily concerned with the effective management of employees within the
company and making sure that right people are hired for the right jobs(Armstrong and Taylor,
2020). It also creates various opportunities in order to motivate the employees and help them
grow their careers. Human resource also deals with the formulation as well as implementation of
policies within the workplace. Organization chosen for this report is Tesco, which is a British
retailer of groceries headquartered in the United Kingdom and was founded by Jack Cohen. The
report evaluates the effectiveness of recruitment as well as selection strategies within the
organization and analyzes how the chosen company manages the overall development of its
employees. Different strategies of talent management and detailed critical analysis of the
different HR systems as well as procedures used by Tesco is also included in the report.
MAIN BODY
LO1
Effectiveness of recruitment and selection strategies in an organisations
Recruitment is defined as a process in which steps related to identification of job
vacancy, evaluation of job requirement, application form review, screening and suitable
candidate selection is being included according to requirement of company job position. It is a
procedure in which an organisation attract potential individual in order to fill organisation job
vacancy (Buller and McEvoy, 2012). While if it is talked about selection it is a concept in which
suitable candidate get selected from pool of applicants who have make their application for job
role. In this HR manager is having responsibility to hire candidates as per according to
employment legislations and laws. It has been evaluated that Tesco undertake different methods
of job advertisements, different type of selection and recruitment process which is being defined
below:
Internal Recruitment
In this process Tesco mainly involved in the process of identifying and recruiting talented
individual from their internal organisational structure as to fulfil job requirement and find no
suitable employee for the job role then they advertise about the job vacancy in order to fill
requirement adequately.
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External Recruitment
It is one of the most effective measures that Tesco undertake in which they undertake
different measures in order to fulfil job requirement vacancies with the help of their website
www.tesco-carrers.com along with online and offline measures. In this candidates can apply for
the suitable job role and further they are being asked for the interview in Tesco assessment centre
for final stage. It has been evaluated that company also take advantage of this method by seeking
candidates via television, offline media, radio etc. They also make advertisements on well known
magazines like Google and The Appointment Journal in order to hire best and talented
employees for the job role as to effectively fulfil job requirement of entity. Company also engage
in the process of taking use of cost effective measures in order to influence large number of
applicants. However in order to make radio and television advertisements measures company
required to pay huge amount in order to grab attention of large number of candidate. This
method proves to be effective it has been identified that entity provide facility of easy application
process way to the applicants in order to allow them to search for management post, management
position and head office positions. All these measures have been effectively undertaken by Tesco
in order to strengthen efficiency of the recruitment process as to enhance workforce efficiency.
Selection
In this process entity engage in the process of selecting most suitable individual from
those who have made their application for job role. For this entity undertake use of screening as
it play a crucial role in this process, as it allows them to make sure that individual selected for
interview process for appropriate for required job role (Pieper, R. ed., 2012). In this Tesco
undertake advantage of initial screening in which they carefully evaluate every individual who
had applied according to their CV( Curriculum Vitae) job qualification and job history. With the
help of these selectors of Tesco matches candidate potential and knowledge according to job
requirement of company. Along with this Tesco offer facility of job type match on company
career website page through which candidates can effectively undertake their evaluation before
making application of the job.
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