Recruitment and Staff Development Plan for BUNI Travels Company

This report focuses on BUNI Travels, a tour and travel company, and its approach to recruitment and staff development. It begins with an introduction emphasizing the importance of hiring skilled professionals to achieve company objectives and enhance profitability. The report then details the job description and person specification for a Business Travel Consultant, followed by a sample job advertisement. It outlines a recruitment strategy, emphasizing the need for a structured process to avoid hiring the wrong candidate. The report also includes a three-month staff development plan, covering action plan creation, training, monitoring, and evaluation, along with the rationale behind the choices made. The report highlights the importance of job descriptions, effective training, and performance measurement in achieving business goals, concluding that a well-defined recruitment and staff development plan is crucial for the company's success. The report references several academic sources to support its arguments.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Job Description and Person specification for hiring Business Consultant..................................3
Job Advert for the post of Business Travel Consultant...............................................................4
Recruitment strategy ..................................................................................................................5
Staff development Plan ..............................................................................................................6
Rationale for choices...................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Recruitment and selection is one of the most important process of management. It is important to
recruit high skilled professionals so that it becomes easy for company to attain its objectives
within time frame period (Albert, 2019). Hiring a skilled and knowledgable person improves
overall efficiency of company. By having skilled employees company can take advantage of
their skills in order to make customers more satisfied. It enhances profitability and promotes
growth of company. This project report is based on BUNI Travels, a tour and travel company
which offers travelling service to tourist and local customers. This report will cover job
description and person specification of Business Travel Consultant. Further its will cover a job
advert for inviting potential candidates for filling vacant post of Business travel consultant at
BUNI Travels. Further, it will cover a plan which will outline business strategy in order to opt
best candidate. At last, it will cover three month staff development plan along with clear
rationale.
TASK
Recruitment and Selection may be defined as a process of hiring right candidate for filling vacant
job position in company (Abbasi and et.al.,, 2022). It is important to follow structured process or
company might hire wrong candidate and may suffer its consequences in terms of lower
performance and low profitability. Company can become more efficient if it hires right candidate
for right job role. Candidate have to clear all levels of recruitment and selection process in order
to get job role in company. It facilitates in improving overall performance of company and make
customers more satisfied. Recruitment process helps in streamlining candidates with
management process in order to get right candidate. One wrong move can lead to years of
damage. It has been analysed that four in dive companies have admitted that by hiring wrong
person it had negatively affected their performance and overall productivity. In order to get right
candidate, it is needed to made aware people about job opening and for that Job description is
made.
Job Description and Person specification for hiring Business Consultant
Job description helps companies in identifying skills and qualification which are needed to fill
vacant job position within company. It is a management framework which is used in getting

information and in understanding duties and task of a specific job position (Mahjoub and
Kruyen, 2021). It helps in getting clarity about roles and responsibilities which an individual
have to perform while working in a job role. It facilitates in understanding what and individual
have to do and how along with success criteria in order to evaluate performance. Job description
helps in getting understanding about skills and qualifications that are needed to perform job in an
company. Job description contains essential information like job role. Job position, location of
company, salary and incentives along with other essential details. It contributes BUNI Travels in
getting right candidate which can bring efficiency to business and makes company successful .
Hiring a wrong candidate may affect company's performance as well as lowers down
profitability of company. It helps in identifying roles and responsibilities that an individual have
in order to get selected in company. Company can be more efficient if it hires right candidate in
company. In case of BUNI Travels, it has formulated a job description in which involves skills
and qualification for hiring at post of Business Travel Consultant. Following is Job Advert for
BUNBI Travels.
Job Advert for the post of Business Travel Consultant
It plays an important role in hiring right candidate for filling job position of company. It helps in
making people aware about vacant job position at BUNI Travels. Hiring a right candidate helps
company in making it more efficient and more productive in every aspect of business operations.
JOB ADVERTISING
BUNI Travels is searching for Business Travel Consultant who have ability to bring
efficiency in company's operations. The company is located in barnsbury, London.
 Company name - BUNI Travels
 Job Location – Barnsbury, London.
 Industry – Tourism and Travel
 Job position – Business Travel Consultant
 Qualifications – Must have diploma in hospitality consultant.
 Experience – Should have 3-4years’ experience in Travel Industry
 Skills –Customer engagement skill, time management and Beter
commu8nication skill
 Languages known –Must know German, French and English.
 Salary - $30000 per month + Incentives
 Leaves – 26 Leave can be availed through out year.

Interested candidates may drop their resume at [e-mail]
Thank You
Recruitment strategy
It is important to formulate effective strategy so that it bring efficiency to company;'s operations.
Hiring employee is one of the most critical task of management and is undertaken by Human
Resource Department. Is consist of structured process which is conducted by company. These
strategies are formulated by top authority of company and it is the duty of Human Resource
Department to comply with rules (Hinton Woods and Zibarras, 2020). There are various process
that an individual have to go through in order to get job role in company. The first step is to
identify recruitment needs and company have identified they need to expand their business
operations and they need a business consultant which can help company in directing towards
right track on which company can expand its business internationally. Upon successful identified
need of business consultant, now it is needed to identify what are the qualities and skills that an
individual have to possess in order to get hired for this role. It helps in understanding what type
of person have ability to bring efficiency to business. Recruitment strategy helps in getting
knowledge about job requirements and it can be fulfilled by hiring candidate. After that company
have to formulate job description in order to make people aware about company's job role
offering. It is important to formulate effective recruitment strategy or it will negatively impact on
company's performance. It makes the process easier as it will help company in understanding
what type of person and what skills and qualification are needed to fill vacant job position in
company. BUNI Travels have made recruitment strategy which will help in getting right
candidate for job role of Business consultant. If company do not hire right candidate then
company cannot expand its business. It eliminates risk of hiring wrong candidate. This process if
time consuming it will provide tons of benefit to company in elevating and expanding business
operations internationally (van Esch and Mente, 2018). So it is needed to formulate effective
strategy so that company can take advantage of skills which a candidate possess. It is not easy to
recruit right candidate as it consumes more time in identifying right candidate. As technology is
emerging day by day and there are various stand-alone software that helps companies in scrutiny
process and automatically eliminates unfit candidates who do not possess required skills or not
match with required criteria. It is the blueprint for company which will direct towards making

company more efficient. Business consultant helps company in identifying in areas where it
lacks along with providing strategies to make more productive (Suwarto and Subyantoro, 2019).
Staff development Plan
This plan helps in evaluating employees performance so that corrective measures could be taken
in order to improve overall performance of company. It becomes easier to attain organisational
goals if company makes employees more productive by filling their gaps in which they lack.
Performance of employees must be good so that it contributes towards accomplishment of
objectives. Training sessions can help in making employees more efficient. It is important for
employees to upgrade their skills so that they can take advantage of it and promotes self
development. It is important to conduct training sessions regularly in order to make employees
aware about trends of business and how it can affect performance of company. In case of BUNI
Travels, it is important to formulate effective employee development plan so that it makes
employees can be more productive and effective. Following is process of formulation of action
plan of BUNI Travels.
 Creation of Action plan – It is needed to identify the company's needs and its objectives
in order to formulate action plan. It involves various information like what resources will
be used, strategies and activities to be performed in action plan. It also includes
objectives and targets for which action plan is formulated. Company sets effectiveness
criteria in order to measure performance of activities along with success of action plan.
By this, employees can be made aware about their roles and responsibilities which they
have to perform to implement change. Company can compare effectiveness by comparing
actual performance with standard performance (Manuaba and Darma, 2021)
 Providing trainings -It is important to provide training sessions to employees in order to
make them more productive at workplace. By getting skills, it helps in improving existing
skills and learn new skills which they can use in company to make more efficient. Skills
plays an important role in making individual more productive and can get advantage of it
in terms of promotional and financial benefits. Due to emerging technology, company
can opt software which helps in providing virtual experience of interaction with other
employees. It is a cost effective method of training and development of employees.

 Monitoring of actions – It is essential to monitor each activity of employees so that they
can be filled with skills in which they lack. It helps in identifying their strengths and
weaknesses and based on that development plan should be made. If the performance of
employees is not good, it is needed to take corrective actions (Hanapiyah and et.al.,
2018).
 Evaluation of action plan – It is important to evaluate effectiveness of action plan so that
manager can alter points while formulating development plan in future. Evaluation makes
future plan more effective by rectifying mistakes in current plan.
Rationale for choices
Job description is important as it allows in making aware people about vacant job position and all
essential details which is needed for job position. It is important to hire right candidate so that it
can bring efficiency to business or it may lower down performance of company. It is needed to
provide training sessions to employees in order to sharpen their skills so that they can perform
better at workplace. Skilled employees have the ability to do work in an effective and efficient
manner. Performance measurement helps company in identifying weaknesses of employees and
what step is needed to overcome with weaknesses.
CONCLUSION
From the above project report, it was concluded that job description is crucial for management as
it facilitates in getting right candidate for filling vacant job position of company. By this,
company can get advantage of their skills and utilised in critical task in order to make it easier to
accomplish goals. Training helps in improving existing capabilities and to learn new skills. Staff
development plan is important as it allows to formulate plans for employee development by
setting up a goal and benchmark to measure effectiveness of development plan. It involves
various stages and tasks which are needed to take care for enhancing performance of
development plan. Setting up goals helps employees in pushing themselves to achieve objectives
in a time frame period.

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