Recruiting a Business Travel Consultant for BUNI Travel Agency

This report discusses the recruitment process of a business travel consultant for BUNI travel agency. It covers job description, person specification, job advertising, recruitment strategy, and a three-month development plan. The report emphasizes the importance of finding the right candidate with the right qualifications and skills to generate more profits in the market.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Explaining Job description and person specification for Business travel consultant......................1
Explaining job advertising which help the HR manager to recruit Business travel Consultant......4
Explaining the plan outlining recruitment strategy to find the best possible candidate for BUNI
travel agency. ..................................................................................................................................5
Explaining a three month development plan for the individual in order to get more productivity
in the agency. .................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In this report there will be brief discussion about the role of HR manager at BUNI travel
and the job is to recruit a business travel consultant. There will be discussion about how to
produce a job description, person's specification. Along, with that there will be brief analysation
of job advert, plan outlining and a three month staff development plan for the new starter. About
the Company: BUNI company is an travel agency (Seregina, 2020). It establish the travel plan of
different customers with the help of different adventure packages like bike tour, family tour etc.
Travel an tourism industry is growing exponentially. This industry has taken a huge leap and it is
the largest service industry in different regions.
MAIN BODY
Explaining Job description and person specification for Business travel
consultant.
JOB SPECIFICATION
Job title: Business Travel Consultant
Reporting to: HR manager
Job description: To help different customers in the travelling from one city to another
Duties and Obligations:
 Understand needs and customers behaviour
 Suggests the clients different suitable packages
 Make new innovative decisions to solve different problems
 Resolve different queries of customers
 Organising the customers journey smoothly from beginning to end Develop different skills while working in the agency
Qualifications:
 Bachelors degree in travel and tourism industry
 Developed Managerial and Interpersonal skills
 Understanding of travelling Environment
 Basic knowledge of computer and travelling software skills
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 Helps the travellers in accommodation and transportation
PERSONAL SPECIFICATION
Significant Skills:
 Good Communication Skills to help different customers
 Coordinating with the management
 Multi-tasking in different situations
 Persuading ability Knowledge of right travelling softwares and tools
Required Skills:
 Flexible and understanding
 Good understanding skills
 Should posses confidence to help different travellers
 Should be patient
Job Description – A Job description is an document which helps the candidates to know about
the job responsibilities and duties. Along with that it informs about all the essential details which
the individual needs to perform in the organisation. On the other hand, Job description is also
known as job specification. Preparing a detailed job description is also important for an
organisation in order to select the talented applicants who are suitable for the company (Singh,
and Kamal, 2019). By selecting right candidate helps the organisation to generate more profits in
the market. Travel and tourism industry already provides a huge share in the market.
It contains the following components:
 Job Title – It informs the applicant about the particular position in the company. In
BUNI travel agency the job title is business travel consultant.
 Job Purpose – It tells the applicant about the purpose of the job. By explaining the
requirements and responsibilities. In BUNI travel agency the HR is hiring business travel
consultant. The individual had to handle all the travelling requirements of different
customers. By following these components the agency has recruited a talented candidate
for the position.
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 Job Duties and Responsibilities – In this particular point the applicant understand about
the job duties and responsibilities in the organisation. As an business travel consultant the
individual must had a knowledge about all travelling procedures.
 Required Qualifications – In this Point the applicant get a detailed understanding about
all the qualifications degrees which the individual had to posses to get the job on the
company (Kyselova, 2021). As an manager the required qualification which HR has
included is Bachelor degree in Travel and Tourism and a relevant knowledge in
hospitality and tourism industry.
 Major Duties and Working Conditions – As an mangers in the company. The HR has
included certain duties and responsibilities which help the agency to get an talented
candidate for example basic knowledge of computer and different software skills like Ms
excel, strong knowledge of travelling soft wares etc.
Person specification – Person specification is a companion attached in the job description. In
this the HR manager include a fully described document about the person's education and
qualifications skills. On the other hand, the company also provides right training and
development qualities to stand out in the market (Hopkins, and Dowell, 2021). BUNI travel
agency recruited the right candidate by using a satisfactory person specification. On the other
hand, person specification plays an important role in the organisation. It helps the company to
find a desirable and suitable candidate for the particular job position. The company specifies
everything in the document what skills and qualifications they want from the candidates. With
the help of person specification the organisation find the right candidate from which they could
get maximum productivity and generate more revenues in the market.
Importance of Person specification:
 It ensures that the organisation is finding the right candidate with right academic
qualifications.
 It helps the organisation to focus on the key requirements what responsibilities and duties
an employee do in the company.
Explaining job advertising which help the HR manager to recruit Business
travel Consultant.
JOB ADVERTIESMNT
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We’re HIRING!!
Business travel consultant
This is an opportunity for the qualified candidates who are willing to work in BUNI travel
agency as business travel consultant. The vacancy is for the employees who are willing to work
full time agency. This is a full time job for the selected candidates.
Working days would be 6 and additional work of the individual will be rewarded. Proper
training and development will be provide to the suitable candidates. On the other hand, the
employees will know about different aspects of travel and tourism industry.
Pay and Benefits
 Wages according to the
working hours
 20 Days of Yearly
Leaves
Contact us today
The interested candidates can drop their CV at ABC.com
for further help contact the HR manager in any case of
emergency.
Job advertisement is an announcement that helps different people to know about the particular
job position in an organisation (Brouwer, and Hessels, 2019). It could be done on both factors
which include offline and online means. In online means the organisation could promote their
job description with the help of online sites. For example like indeed, linked In, monster jobs etc.
As an HR manger of BUNI travel agency right advertising is needed to find the perfect business
travel consultant for the company. A right candidate who is suitable for the job and has all the
certified skills.
Importance of job advertisement:
Employers rely on job portals to advertise jobs and search for resumes. Hiring platforms has
become an important part of almost every hiring process, and using them effectively will help in
hiring qualified candidates at relatively low costs (Fenech, 2018). The main aim for a job
advertisement is to attract the right candidate for the position. Companies spend huge amount of
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money to place ads, sorting, selecting, running checks. Some importance of company job
advertisement are:
inform candidates: To let people know about the openings, advertisement plays efficient and
important role. The more jobs is advertised the better are chances of suitable candidates.
-Accessibility
It can be accessed by any suitable candidate and it is beneficial for candidates looking to
work remotely.
-Helps filter the right candidates
Mentioned the job roles and the skills it automatically exclude the people who are not
eligible and by this way time is saved and energy of filtering right candidates.
The HR manager use different recruitment methods:
 Social network ads – Social advertising is a technique which helps the
organisation to promote their job posting on social media apps. They generate
different campaigns to attract multiple candidates (Haygood, Vincent, and Bush,
2019). As an HR this is the first method which is used to find a suitable business
travel consultant.
 Print media advertisement – This method is used to promote the job to different
candidates in printing outlets like newspaper, pamphlets etc. The HR manager also
used this technique to find the perfect and suitable candidate. In this method the
HR manager reaches out to more number of peoples which helps the agency to get
an outstanding employee who also has the right experience in travelling industry.
Explaining the plan outlining recruitment strategy to find the best possible
candidate for BUNI travel agency.
While recruiting the candidates the HR manager follows a strategic recruitment plan. It helps the
manager to find the best suitable candidate for the job position of business travel consultant.
 Defining the particular goals – The main goal is to find the best candidate according
to the particular goals of the BUNI agency. The main motive is the individual acquire
best skill set in travelling and tourism industry.
 Clear idea to only recruit suitable candidates – As an HR manager the motive is to
only select few applicants (Chang, and Tanford, 2018). As a post of business travel
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consultant the individual needs to had right qualifications and skills in order to get
selected.
 Refining the Selection Process – The selection process is by far the most important
factors while recruiting a candidate. The HR manager has coordinated with the top
management in order to successfully recruit a suitable candidates. They involve two
three interview rounds to select the right candidate in the agency.
 Designing a suitable process for completion of different strategies – By following
a suitable recruitment process the HR manager of BUNI agency has recruited the
right business travel consultant in the organisation.
 Developing the sourcing Strategy – As an HR manager sourcing strategy is
important in order to find the best productive candidate for the agency. Making an
action plan according to different sources is important for the organisation (Cohen,
Sauermann, and Stephan, 2020). The HR manger use right sourcing strategy and find
the best employee who could achieve the agency goals and requirement.
Explaining a three month development plan for the individual in order to get
more productivity in the agency.
In the BUNI agency there is a development plan divided in 3 stages for every month.
Month 1  Giving right direction to the employee to get more productivity.
 Providing a favourable working environment and help the
learner to develop certain skills and idea about how the
organisation work.
 Training need analysis for right development.
 Helps in operating different travelling software to make the
employee comfortable in the agency.
Month 2  Reviewing their finished work
 Point out necessary mistake and help them to solve out different
problems.
 Increasing the productivity of an individual in the agency.
 Involve them in decision making.
 Helps them to generate new knowledgable ideas in the agency.
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 Developing inherent skills to succeed in the future.
Month 3  In this month basically the only motive is to review the
employee performance.
 Seeing all qualities which the person has developed in the
agency.
 Giving them new tasks ans seeing the output of the individual.
 Introducing new recognition and reward strategies to get more
productivity from the employee .
As an HR manager, the agency has developed this program to develop the inherent skills and
helps to had an efficient growth in the future.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has concluded that the HR manager of BUNI agency has developed
right recruitment plan and strategies to find the best suitable candidate for the job. Along, with
that there is a proper idea of job description and person specification which proves to be an
important aspect while finding a skilled employee for the particular job position. For further
instance, there is suitable document of job description and person specification.
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