Job Description and Person Specification in Recruitment and Selection Process

Unit – 19
Resource
And
Talent
Planning

INTRODUCTION
The resource refers as tools, materials, land, etc., which are scarce and have to be utilised
effectively by an entrepreneur for sustaining in perfect competition market. The talent is ability and
speciality of a candidate for performing given task easily whether it may be difficult. The organisation
selected for this project is Sainsbury as being the second largest chain of supermarket in United
Kingdom (Chiang, Lemański and Birtch, 2017) (Colbourne, 2017). The Chief Executive Officer of
Sainsbury is Mike Coupe from 9th July, 2014 with 16% share of the supermarket sector. This project
determines current labour market trends that influence talent administration in workforce planning
with various types of legal requirements that business must focus in planning workforce. It further
develops an illustration for job description and person specification in recruitment and selection
methods and process. Additionally, it examines the various stages of HR Life-Cycle applied by
Human Resource Manager with its integration between through HR strategy within an organisation.
TASK 1
P1. Determine current labour market trends that influence talent administration in workforce planning
Talent:- This is defined as natural endowments of person within a field or activity through
their characteristics, features, aptitude, etc. It is the ability of performing certain action with high skill
and specialization to complete task effectively with eliminating errors. Managers of Sainsbury focus
on this as to avoid more time consumption for an activity which delay in completion of aim and
objectives. If a people is having talent then it can face the challenges in their organization and helps to
increase the activities by tak9ing the competitive benefits.
HR Strategy:- The Human Resource planning is a procedure to identify current and future
requirements while planning for an organisation to serve as a link between HRM and overall strategic
plan of an enterprise. Managers of Sainsbury implement this strategy to integrate an organisation
culture, employee co-ordination, engagement and involvement. This leads to achieve vision, mission,
objectives of an organization through satisfying its target market with qualitative finished goods and
services. This is important for Sainsbury to make strong HR strategy that can help to recruit the
skilled and talented people who perform all activities of organization and increase productivity
(Chavaha, Kuntonbutr and Jaturat, 2019).
Talent Management:- It is described as strategic source of planning by managers used to
improve business value by developing competitive advantages of business to sustain in perfect
competition market. Managers of Sainsbury mainly concentrate on talent acquisition and retention,
performance management, learning and motivation to encourage employees by accomplishing
individual and organisational goals (Brady, 2014).

Some of the current labour market trends which are explained as under that influence talent
management and workforce planning is mentioned below as:-
 Globalisation:- The globalisation is a procedure of interaction with people, companies and
government worldwide at diverse countries through international trade. It is the combination
of liberalisation and privatisation which develops interdependence of world economists,
cultural and residents through cross-border trade in goods, services, technologies, flow of
investment, etc. Managers of Sainsbury are positively affected with this talent management
and workforce planning in hiring employees who leads to improve efficiency. The company
recruit workers that are not from United Kingdom and are still ready to pay at low payment
which is beneficial in expensing less for minimum wages (Duff, 2017).
 Technological changes:- It is the ability of an organisation to adopt new technologies in
company which results in developing skills, knowledge and behaviour of people that leads to
achieve success efficiently. Managers of Sainsbury are favourably affected with talent
management and workforce planning as it focuses on implementing new machines, softwares,
automation, etc. This create opportunity to reduce labour cost by adopt technological sector
which improve efficiency and reduce errors that may cause delay in accomplishing their
vision and mission of company. As all knows that technology is changing which can be
challenge and solution for business to increase the business activitie sand maintain a brand
image in competitive business environment. In context to Sainsbury, managers are adopting
different technology such as online marketing that increases selling activity by attracting the
customers (Harris, 2014).
 Demographic:- This trend of talent management and workforce planning provide opportunity
for HR managers to retire the existing or old employees from the firm. It is the procedure to
recruit or hire new candidates with high skills in organisation who are capable to perform
their task perfectly. This leads to reduce mistakes and expense on training and development
with less paid salary that result in accomplishment of success efficiently.
The systematic approach link with talent resourcing and strategic HRM:- The link
between systematic approach of talent resourcing and strategic Human Resource Management is to
recognise the tactics for role and responsibility that impact on resources of human beings. This is very
vital for an organisation to enhance their spirited strategy through intrinsic strength for controlling
weakness and extrinsic opportunities to overcome threats.
P2. Describe various legal legislations that business must focus in planning workforce
Workforce Planning:- It is a continuous process in which human resource managers
identifies various requirements of workers to develop strategic decision for recruiting new talent. This
is most important for business to follow rules and regulations of employee legislations imposed by