Human Resource Management Report: Imperial Brands Recruitment Process

This report provides an analysis of the Human Resource Management (HRM) practices at Imperial Brands, a multinational tobacco company. The report begins with an introduction to the company and focuses on two key vacancies: Business Analyst and Market Researcher. It details the job specifications and person specifications for each role, outlining required qualifications, experience, tasks, and skills. The report then examines the recruitment and selection methods employed by Imperial Brands, specifically highlighting external recruitment strategies using advertisements and online job portals. The selection process is discussed, detailing the use of interviews, reference checks, and medical examinations. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of effective HRM for the smooth operation of the organization, particularly in planning and organizing the recruitment and selection process. The report references various books and journals to support its findings.

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................1
Vacancy For Organisation- ........................................................................................................1
Job Specification & Person Specification Of Business Analyst-:...............................................1
Recruitment & Selection Method For Vacancy-.........................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

TASK 3
INTRODUCTION
Selected organisation is IMPERIAL BRANDS it is a British multinational tobacco
company founded in 1901, it is the world's fourth largest cigarette company. Its headquarter is in
Bristol,UK and are engaged in producing cigars, fine-cut tobacco, snuff, tubes & tobacco papers.
They are selling their product in over 160 countries with the brand names Davidoff, West,
Montecristo, Golden virginia, drum & Rizla (Marinescu, I., 2017).
Vacancy For Organisation- Business Analyst- It is an important part of business organisation as they are the one who
analyse the business domain and documents. They act as the bridge between business
problems and solutions. Business analyst task is to understand needs of business changes,
assessment of business impact of those changes, documenting requirements and
supporting delivery and communication of requirements with stakeholders.
Job Specification & Person Specification Of Business Analyst-:
JOB SPECIFICATION:
Designation Business Analyst
Experience  Person should have experience of 2-3
years
Qualification  person should have bachelors degree on
any of these field, business studies,
business administration, management
and information technology.
Task  person has to deal in assisting with
business case
 Another task that Business analyst
perform will be planning and
monitoring the situation for better
performance of the organisation which
help in achieving goals(Gilmour and et.
1

al., 2015).
 Analyst need to find out the
requirement of the company on time so
that it can fill that gap .
 After analysing requirements, Analyst
task is to simplify those requirement for
others to understand it and perform
accordingly.
 Another expectation from Imperial
Brands Analyst is to manage the
requirements, communicate it and at
last do their best it extracting it.
PERSON SPECIFICATION :
Required skills  Should have a good written and verbal
communication skills, including
technical writing skills.
 They should have leadership skills in
them
Knowledge  Person should able to conduct cost or
benefit analysis
 Should have knowledge of modelling
techniques & methods
 Market Researcher- They are required to Imperial Brands because these people are
organised in gathering information about the customers and target market. They are the
important part of organisation specially for the marketing process . They help in
gathering information about the competitiveness in the market and to analyse needs of the
market .
Job Specification & Person Specification of Market Researcher-:
2

Job Specification
Designation Market researcher
Experience  3-4 years
 Proven market research analysis
experience
Qualification  BS degree in marketing, statistics or
related field
Responsibility  Their responsibility is to collect data on
consumers and competitors.
 Conduct survey to analyse customer's
preferences.
 Performing SWOT analysis
 interpret data, make reports and make
recommendations.
 Conduct competitive analysis on
different companies to know about
market trends, sales & methods of
operation.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Required skills  Should have skills to think critically &
analytically.
 Good communication and presentation
skills.
 Ability to perform multitask and
interpret large data.
Knowledge  Knowledge of data warehousing,
3

modelling and mining.
 Familiarity with CRM programs
 should aware of search engines,
business research tools acumen.
 Should have excellent knowledge of
statistical packages, databases & MS
office.
Recruitment & Selection Method For Vacancy-
Recruitment:
Company should recruit these candidates externally by giving advertisements on
newspapers and on online job portals. This is the quickest and least expensive method of hiring
person from outside the organisation. Imperial Brand have two such vacancies which require
work experience, so company can not go for the campus placements because they do not want
freshers(Chadi, A. and Hetschko, C., 2018).
Selection:
For selecting candidates Imperial Brands will not go for complete process they start
directly from the interview and perform till medical examination.
 At the very first step company start interview process of the candidates because they their
required vacancy is very high level in which number of applicants will not be very large.
In this process of selection, HR professionals will face to face ask questions from the
candidate and try to observe the person to know if they are suitable for the company or
not.
 After completion of interview, organisation will conduct reference check of those
candidates to whom they find good fit for the company. In this step, HR professionals
gather information about the candidate's background from their previous organisations &
institutions mentioned in their CV.
 After getting clarification from previous organisations, candidates need to go for the
medical examination to check their physical fitness.
4

 At last candidate who fulfil every criteria and pass all the above tests, will be selected for
the required positions in the company.
5

CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that human resource management is very
much important for the organisation for its smooth running. Other than this it has been observe
that organisation can not run without a proper planning & organising the recruitment and
selection process. Company need to perform several functions or practices that increases their
profit and productivity.
6

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Noe and et.al., 2017. Human resource management: Gaining a competitive advantage. New
York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Wright, P., 2018. Fundamentals of human resource management. Management. 5. p.27.
Bratton, J. and Gold, J., 2017. Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave.
DeCenzo, D. A., Robbins, S. P. and Verhulst, S. L., 2016. Fundamentals of Human Resource
Management, Binder Ready Version. John Wiley & Sons.
Chelladurai, P. and Kerwin, S., 2018. Human resource management in sport and recreation.
Human Kinetics.
Brewster, C., Chung, C. and Sparrow, P., 2016. Globalizing human resource management.
Routledge.
Chadi, A. and Hetschko, C., 2018. The magic of the new: How job changes affect job
satisfaction. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. 27(1). pp.23-39.
Gilmour and et. al., 2015. ASReml user guide release 4.1 structural specification. Hemel
hempstead: VSN international ltd.
Marinescu, I., 2017. The general equilibrium impacts of unemployment insurance: Evidence
from a large online job board. Journal of Public Economics. 150. pp.14-29.
7