Alpha Institute BSBHRM506: Recruitment, Selection, Induction Project

This document presents a student's comprehensive response to the BSBHRM506 assessment tasks, focusing on managing recruitment, selection, and induction processes. The assignment addresses various aspects of HR management, including different recruitment methods, the purpose and advantages of assessment centers, and the concept of human resources outsourcing. It delves into industrial relations, employment contracts, and modern awards, providing insights into workplace entitlements and the Fair Work Act. The student answers detailed questions on the Hospitality Industry (General) Award 2010, registered agreements, and the minimum workplace entitlements for permanent employees, as well as the requirements for maintaining employee records. The assessment tasks cover written questions, a human resources needs project, a recruitment and selection project, a selection process management task, and an induction project, demonstrating the student's understanding of key HR principles and practices.

Student Assessment Tasks
BSBHRM506 Manage recruitment, selection and
induction processes

1. Table of Contents
1.Table of Contents....................................................................................................................... 2
2.Assessment Information............................................................................................................. 3
3.Assessment Instructions............................................................................................................. 5
4.Assessment Task 1: Written Questions .....................................................................................7
5.Assessment Task 1 Instructions............................................................................................... 10
25.Assessment Task 1 Checklist................................................................................................. 13
26.Assessment Task 2: Human resources needs project............................................................14
27.Assessment Task 2 Instructions ............................................................................................16
37.Assessment Task 2 Checklist................................................................................................. 22
38.Assessment Task 3: Recruitment and selection project.........................................................24
39.Assessment Task 3 Instructions ............................................................................................25
44.Assessment Task 3 Checklist................................................................................................. 26
45.Assessment Task 4: Manage selection process.....................................................................28
46.Assessment Task 4 Instructions ............................................................................................29
54.Assessment Task 4 Checklist................................................................................................. 32
55.Assessment Task 5: Induction project....................................................................................33
56.Assessment Task 5 Instructions ............................................................................................35
69.Assessment Task 5 Checklist................................................................................................. 39

2. Assessment Information
The assessment tasks for BSBHRM506 Manage recruitment, selection and
induction processes are included in this Student Assessment Tasks booklet and
outlined in the assessment plan below.
To be assessed as competent for this unit, you must complete all of the assessment
tasks satisfactorily.
Assessment Plan
Assessment Task Overview
1. Written questions You must correctly answer all questions.
2. Human resources needs
project
You must analyse company documentation, develop a briefing report
and then develop recruitment, selection and induction policy and
procedure, as well as supporting documents, as well as provide
information and training to staff on these documents.
3. Recruitment and selection
project
You must develop a job advertisement and identify and report on
recruitment consultants
4. Manage selection process
You must participate in a role-play to advise candidates of interviews
and complete a selection report and advise applicants of the outcome
of the selection process.
5. Induction project
You must demonstrate their ability to manage the induction process
by developing an induction checklist, providing training on the use of
the checklist, providing feedback to probationary employees and
identifying improvements to the induction process, as well as
checking induction processes are followed and taking appropriate
action.
Assessment Preparation
Please read through this assessment thoroughly before beginning any tasks. Ask your
assessor for clarification if you have any questions at all.
When you have read and understood this unit’s assessment tasks, print out the
Student Assessment Agreement. Fill it out, sign it, and hand it to your assessor,
who will countersign it and then keep it on file.
Keep a copy of all of your work, as the work submitted to your assessor will not be
returned to you.
Assessment appeals
If you do not agree with an assessment decision, you can make an assessment appeal
as per your Alpha Institute.
assessment appeals process.

You have the right to appeal the outcome of assessment decisions if you feel you have
been dealt with unfairly or have other appropriate grounds for an appeal.
Naming electronic documents
It is important that you name the documents that you create for this Assessment Task
in a logical manner.
Each should include:
 Course identification code
 Assessment Task number
 Document title (if appropriate)
 Student name
 Date it was created
For example, BSBHRM506 AT3 Briefing Report Joan Smith 20/07/18
Additional Resources
The following resources have been attached in the appendix.
Assessment Task 2
Code of Conduct
Briefing Report Template
Strategic Plan
Employment Agreement Template
Policy and Procedures Template
Fair Work Australia Position Description
Assessment Task 4
Selection Approval Policy
Letter of Offer Guidelines
Assessment Task 5
Fair Work Australia Induction Checklist
Induction Data Report

3. Assessment Instructions
Each assessment task in this booklet consists of the following:
Assessment Task Cover Sheet
This must be filled out, signed and submitted together with your assessment
responses.
If you are submitting hardcopy, the Cover Sheet should be the first page of each
Assessment submission.
If you are submitting electronically, print out the cover sheet, fill it out and sign it,
then scan this and submit the file.
The Assessment Task Cover Sheet will be returned to you with the outcome of the
assessment, which will be satisfactory (S) or unsatisfactory (U). If your work has been
assessed as being not satisfactory, your assessor will include written feedback in the
Assessment Task Cover Sheet giving reasons why. Your assessor will also discuss this
verbally with you and provide advice on re-assessment opportunities as per
your Alpha Institute re-assessment policy.
Depending on the task, this may include
resubmitting incorrect answers to questions (such as short answer questions and case studies)
resubmitting part or all of a project, depending on how the error impacts on the total outcome of the
task
redoing a role play after being provided with appropriate feedback about your performance
being observed a second (or third time) undertaking any tasks/activities that were not satisfactorily
completed the first time, after being provided with appropriate feedback.
Assessment Task Information
This gives you:
a summary of the assessment task
information on the resources to be used
submission requirements
re-submission opportunities if required
Assessment Task Instructions
These give questions to answer or tasks which are to be completed.
Your answers need to be typed up using software as indicated in the Assessment Task
Instructions.
Copy and paste each task’s instructions into a new document and use this as the basis
for your assessment task submission. Include this document’s header and footer.
If you are submitting electronically, give the document a file name that includes the
unit identification number, the task number, your name and the date.
Checklist

This will be used by your assessor to mark your assessment. Read through this as part
of your preparation before beginning the assessment task. It will give you a good idea
of what your assessor will be looking for when marking your responses.

4. Assessment Task 1 Instructions
Provide answers to all of the questions below:
1. Outline five methods of recruiting staff.
There are five different methods considered for recruiting the staff members.
 Web advertising
 Social media platform
 By using recruitment agencies
 Newspaper advertisement
 Print advertising
These are different type of method applicable in organization which are recruiting the staff
members.
2. Describe the purpose of an assessment centre in a recruitment process.
Assessment Centre is based on multifaceted recruitment process that are designed to assess
group of candidates with large range of competencies as per scenario. This type of assessment
Centre applicable at the time of recruitment where it combines with the range of activities and
also compare with group of candidates. The primary purpose of assessment Centre which
improved the accuracy as they allow to select different method during process. It also facilities
an assessment of existing performance which are helping to predict the future job performance.
3. Outline three advantages of using an assessment centre to determine a candidate’s suitability for a
position.
The benefits of assessment Centre is to identify the suitability of candidates that will
maintain position in global marketplace. It is considered the assessment Centre to easily
screening their capabilities.
 It is more accurately than standard recruitment process where it allows for large number
of selection technique at the time of process.
 It enables for interviewers to easily assess the existing performance of candidates and
also predicts to future job performance.

 It also useful for give better insight into the specific role as it easily tested on exercises
which are atypically play important role where they have applied.
 The price of assessment Centre usually cheap as compare with the actual price of many
recruitment phases. Sometimes, it will generate errors in recruitment.
4. Explain the concept of human resources outsourcing.
It is a type of process where human resources performed different activities in organization
that can be outsourced. It mainly focused on the core competencies of organization. HR has
performed complex functions and very time consuming. It also creating difficulties to
manage the different departments.
5. Discuss two advantages of outsourcing HR functions.
There are main two advantage of outsourcing HR functions:
 Easy risk management: It is important functions to manage the overall business risk
and also keep update information on regular basis. Outsourcing organizations have
Human resources professional, who always keep themselves to maintain both services
and laws. It also gives access to pool talent that knowledge about latest change in
market.
 Maintain employee performance: It supports the employee growth which always
maintain quality and deliver the services on time. In this way, it easily compared with
other people where they can handle internally process. It monitoring performance of
employees to increase organization performance.
6. Discuss the functions and scope of industrial relations.
Industrial relation is also known as employee relation between staff members and
management. It is important part of organization to run business effectively and efficiently.
The scope of industrial relation which develop positive relationship with managers, leaders
so as it directly impacts on the productivity and profitability of organization. It is type of
modern process that based on emotional, practical relationship and other contractual that
exists between managers and employees.
7. Outline the purpose of an employment contract.

The purpose of employment contract is to ensure that employee and employer have clear
understanding about the expected in terms of employment. It is based on document that can
serve to remove any disputes and also increase at later date. In this way, it easily
understands that what is right and wrong.
8. Explain the purpose of a modern award, as well as to whom it applies.
A Modern award is a document which set out the minimum terms and conditions that
employment on the national employment standards. Award is mainly providing pay rates and
conditions of every employment such as shift work, entitlement, overtime at workplace. This
type of award provides by manager and authorities.
9. Access the modern award Hospitality Industry (General) Award 2010 on the Fair Work Commission
web site at and answer the following questions:
a. What is the minimum hourly rate for a Grade 5 Cook?
The minimum hourly rate is $740.80 per 38 hours
b. If the cook is employed as a regular casual cook, what is the casual loading
that must be paid.
It must pay 38 hours of work per week and other additional charges hours.
c. If the cook is a regular casual employee at Grade 5 and worked 8 hours from
9 am to 5.30 pm with a 30-minute lunch break, what will be the total
amount paid to the cook.
46,000 amounts paid to cook
d. Identify the minimum weekly wages for a kitchen attendant grade 1 and
calculate the annual salary based on this amount.
46,000 x 12= 55,200 based on annual salary
e. If a cook is required to use their own tools at work, what is the allowance
that the employer must pay per week and how much does this amount to
annually?
It allowances on Per week = 750x7 = 5250
The amount to annual basis= 5250X 52 = 273,000

10. Explain the purpose of a registered agreement.
The primary purpose of agreement is to whilst the common law contracts that exists whenever
employee engaged with organization on basis of written and verbal. This type of agreement is
used for industrial purpose in the form of formal document which contain properly legally terms
and conditions.
11. Outline the 10 minimum workplace entitlements for a permanent employee of an organisation
outlined in the National Employment standards.
There are different types of 10 Minimum entitlement for permanent employee in the
organization outline as per employment standards.
 Request for flexible working arrangement policy
 Annual leave
 Personal care
 Long services
 Proper notice of termination as well as redundancy pay
 Public holidays
 Fair work information
12. Identify how long must employees’ records be kept for according to the Fair Work Act 2009.
According to Fair work Act 2009, it should maintain the records of three years but it helps for
keep record information for long terms. It ensures that maintain records and identify that how
much employee was paid and hour they worked in organization. It should record for 7 years.
13. Outline at least four examples of the information which must be kept for each employee according to
the Act above and the Fair Work Regulations 2009.
As per act of far work regulation 2009, it should be kept the information of employee in respects
of each of following ways:
 It records gross and net amount paid; any deductions made from the actual gross
amount.
 It entitled to leave of employee and record of balance.
 It is maintaining record of penalty rate that must be paid for over time hours.
These are different information keep recorded by organization through act 2009.

14. Explain when a pay slip must be provided to an employee and what information must be included in
the pay slip under the Fair Work Act 2009.
Pay slip must be contained information amount the actual amount, deduction and other
superannuation contribution for every day at workplace. As per fair work act 2009, this type of
issued to each staff members.
15. How much notice must be provided to an employee who is to be dismissed?
As per legal aspects and act, it will provide the at least one week notice so that they have been
working continuously 2 years in organization. After completion of notice period, organization is to
dismissed the employee in organization.
16. Who is and who is not covered by unfair dismissal laws?
An employees of nation system employers, who are covered and dismissed to protected from unfair
dismissal law and also eligible to make a proper application. This type of process is completed in
minimum period of employment.
17. Explain why is important to advise potential employees of the terms and conditions of employment
during the recruitment process?
In the process of recruitment it is very necessary task for the companies to maintained the
full decorum that helps to motivate employees in productive way. Apart from this, while handling
the recruitment process. It is very necessary for employer to convey all the terms and conditions to
employees at the time of recruitment which makes the all process and transparent and remove the
possibilities of future challenges. It is important to make employee understand about the policies of
the organization.`
18. Explain the purpose and relevance of psychometric tests in recruitment.
Psychometric test is conducted to understand the client understanding power
about the process of psychometric testing. This test also helps recruiter to analyze
the sharp mind of the candidate which is helpful for the company and its development.
Basically such tests is conducted by the big organizations which clearly mentioned and
better understand the things in more appropriate manner. Also the purpose of such
tests is to measure the individual mental abilities, skill, intelligence, personality traits,
motivations and interests. They provide an overview of a potential employees
strengths and limitations.
19. Explain the purpose and relevance of skills tests in recruitment.
Within the organisation recruiter conduct some tests to measure and analyse the candidate
strength and opportunity. It helps to know more about candidates and its having skills for the
particular job. This tests is most common in the companies to ensure the candidates calibre. Skill
test also taken for the reason to calculate the confidence level of the candidate which belong to the

different situations. There are different kinds of skill tests like Personality skill check, Integrity
Assessment, situational judgement and situational and skill assessment tests.