Recruitment and Selection Strategies at The Choice of Hunger Bakery

This report provides an overview of the recruitment and selection process within a medium-sized bakery named 'The Choice of Hunger,' located in the United Kingdom. It includes a job description for a Head Chef position, detailing the main purpose, scope, location, and reporting structure. The report also presents a person specification outlining the essential and desirable qualifications, skills, knowledge, experience, and personal qualities required for the role. A job advertisement is included, along with an application form that considers relevant employment legislation such as the Equality Act, Safety and Health Law, Minimum Wages Act, and Social Security Law. The report concludes that recruitment and selection are crucial processes for businesses to acquire skilled employees, and systematic approaches are essential for attracting top talent. The document is contributed by a student and available on Desklib for educational purposes.

Recruitment and selection

Table of content
 Introduction
 Description of business
 Job Description
 Person Specification
 Job advertisement
 Application Form taking into account relevant legislation
 Conclusion
 Reference

Introduction
Recruitment is defined as the process of attracting
qualifies and skilled employee’s foe specific job role of
business on the other hand, selection is considered as
the process that is related to identify and select right
candidate on defined job role so that they can perform
all roles and responsibilities in appropriate manner.

Description of business
Medium size bakery named as The Choice of Hungers
Hunger’s that is situated in United Kingdom and have
its bakery shops across UK. It is operated its
operations different part of UK and maintain strong
reputation through provide quality bakery and other
food products to customers. There are various
products are provided by the bakery such as pizza,
bread, cake, muffins as well as other bakery items.

Job Description
 Job title: Head Chef
 Main purpose and scope of the job: Controlling as well as directing the process of food
development and handle all relative responsibilities of kitchen.
 Job location: United Kingdom
 Position in organisation: The choice of Hunger is the bakery that is looking for Head
Chef for the purpose of managing and organising all kitchen operation with effectiveness.
Head Chef have power to develop and inspect dishes before serving them to customers and
make sure that better quality bakery product is provided to customer that retain them with
organisation.
 Report to: Superior Chef

Person Specification
Criteria Essential Desirable
Qualifications Candidate must have food
preparation qualification as well as
have some basic hygiene
certificate.
Course in hospitality as well as advanced
certificate related to food hygiene is
desirable qualification for Head Chef.
Skills/competencies Leadership, effective
communication, organisation,
cooking skills helps the Head Chef
to operate kitchen operation in
efficient manner. Understanding of
legislation and computer skills are
required.
There are some desirable skills as well
such as menu planning skill, customer
handling and negotiation skills.

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Knowledge Knowledge and understanding of Health
and Safety legislation and nutritional value
of food items is essential.
Previous experience 2year work experience in commercial
kitchen of organisation is essential.
5years work experience as a chef in a commercial
environment and experience of budget management
is desirable.
Special attributes Decision-making, analysis, as well as
allergen awareness is essential for Head
Chef.
Working experience in organisation as well as
customer demand analysis is desirable.
Personal qualities Leadership, flexibility, motivation and
management skill is required for this post.
Great sense of humour and capability of working
under pressure.

Job Advertisement
Job Advertisement
Head Chef
 The Choice of Hunger is most prestigious and well-
known bakery which have requirement of Head Chef for
working in shifts from Monday to Saturday that help
organisation to take next level.
 We are offering salary of £30,000 with other unsocial
allowance for the experience Head Chef

Application Form taking into account
relevant legislation
 Application form is considered as the form that filled
with the objective of applying for the specific job
profile. For the post of Head Chef, bakery bring
application form that attract number of candidates.

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Employment legislations Relevance
Equality act This law is applied in organization to provide equal
opportunities to employees.
Safety and health law Safety and health law is applicable in a business to
maintain health and safety of employees.
Minimum wages act Minimum wages act provides appropriate and
suitable monetary rewards to employees.
Social security law Social security law provides employees protection in
the business environment.

Conclusion
As per the above presentation, it can be concluded that
recruitment and selection are very important process for the
business to appoint suitable and skilled employees who can
perform operation of business with efficiency and effectiveness.
Systematic process enable business to get best candidate on
time. organisations develop job advertisement with the
objective of attracting high skilled and talented employees
towards job role.
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