Analysis of Recruitment and Selection at Arcadia Group: A Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the recruitment and selection processes within the Arcadia Group, a British international retailing organization. It begins by outlining the job specification and selection criteria for a Human Resource Administrator position, including required qualifications, skills, and experience. The report then details preparatory notes for interviews, sample interview questions, and a job offer letter. Furthermore, it explores employee relations and human resource management practices, emphasizing the importance of healthy employee relationships and various HRM procedures such as human resource planning, employee remuneration, performance management, and employee relations. The report concludes by summarizing the key aspects of recruitment, selection, and HR practices, referencing relevant academic sources.

Recruitment & selection
within Arcadia

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART A ..........................................................................................................................................3
Job specification and selection criteria........................................................................................3
Preparatory notes for interviews, interview notes based selection criteria..................................5
Job offer letter..............................................................................................................................5
PART B ...........................................................................................................................................5
Employee relations and human resources management practices...............................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Recruitment is procedure of recognizing which company wants to employ someone up to
point at that application forms for the post arrived at company. Then, selection is comprised to
procedure included in selecting suitable candidate to fill the post (Pedersen and et.al., 2017).
Report is based on Arcadia Group. It is the British international retailing organization in the UK.
Study will explain job specification and selection criteria as well as new employee relation,
human resource management practices within the company.
PART A
Job specification and selection criteria
Job Specification:
The selected job position is Human Resource Administrator within the Arcadia Group.
Therefore, human resource department needs to design the job specification and selection criteria
for specific job position.
Arcadia Group
Human Resource Administrator
Human Resource Department
JOB SPECIFICATION
Arcadia Group is an equivalent chances employer, committed to give equivalence chances
regardless of race, martial status, gender, sexuality or age. This person specification is planned
to aid members of interviewing panels decide the qualities of respondents in systematic and
consistent mode and in according to equal opportunity policy of Arcadia Group. It is provided
to all job candidates for information.
Knowledge and Experience
 Considerable experience of HR administration.
 Experience of utilizing HR information technology system.
 Knowledge about information technology system and applications involving MS Excel,
data bases, word processing.
 Experience of maintaining broad records.
 Knowledge about general office activity and process.
 Experience of dealing with conflicts, prioritizing workload and time management.

Abilities and Skills
 Ability to work deadlines within described standards.
 Capability to undertake notes or minutes at meetings.
 Effective interaction with inside and outside contacts at all levels.
Qualifications
 Master of Business Administrator in human resource management.
 Great standard of education involving General Certificate of Secondary Education
(GCSE), Mathematics and English.
Other information
Please submit three copies of your completed application form.
Accomplished application forms can be received through Human Resources, Arcadia Group.
London, United Kingdom be no later than July 16, 2019.
Interview will be held on 26 July 2019.
Selection Criteria:
Selection criteria must be job applicable and is evolved from knowledge, abilities needed
or desirable to do job (Albrecht and et.al., 2015). It is more than the minimum education and
experience needed for the position. Selection criteria indicates essential and desirable abilities
needed by the candidates.
Essential:
 Educated at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) or equal.
 Great consumers care abilities involving the capability to interact with people at all level
in effective manner in both oral and written ways.
 Capability to work supportively within group and individual, practising great decision-
making and utilizing own initiatives.
 Effective key board abilities and proficiency in the usage of computer systems ideally
MS Office: Word, Outlook and Excel.
Desirable:
 Experience of working in human resource team .
 Previous experience of utilizing data base related human resource.

Preparatory notes for interviews, interview notes based selection criteria
Interview Notes:
 Tell me about yourself.
 What are your greatest strengths?
 What are your largest weakness?
 Why should I hire you?
 Tell me who you select that method of communication?
Job offer letter
Job Offer Letter
Date: 16 July 2019.
Name: James Smith
Address: 123 Main street, London.
Dear James,
Welcome to the Arcadia Group. We are so excited for you to join our team. This letter is to
confirm the position offer for Human Resource Administrator at the Arcadia Group.
It is with must spirits which we congratulate you to join the Arcadia Group. Please let me
known if we can be for further help your transition into your new position at our company.
Sincerely
Charles James
Human Resource Department
PART B
Employee relations and human resources management practices
Employee Relation:
It means to efforts of firm to handle relations among employers & workers. The company
with great employee relationship activity gives fair and consistent treatment to all workers, so
that they will dedicate to their works and loyal to the firm. It is essential that employees share
healthy relationship with each other to deliver their best presentation (Nachmias, Caven and
Bradshaw, 2019). The relation can be between anyone in company among co-workers,
employees, superior, members of management etc. It means to relationship shared between

workers in the company. Healthy relationship between workers goes long mode in motivating the
workers and raising their confidence and morale within the Arcadia Group.
Human Resource Management Practices and Process:
Each company works towards understanding of one vision. The similar is accomplished through
making of certain approaches and performance that is done by human resource department. there
are many procedures of human resource management such as:
 Human Resource Planning: It includes recruiting, selection, training, induction,
orientation, promotion and lay-off.
 Employee Remuneration and Benefits management: This can be included deciding
salaries, wages, fringe benefit, incentives etc (Pantouvakis and Karakasnaki, 2018.).
 Performance Management: It refers to aid the company train, motivate and rewards
employees. It includes employees, departments, goods, services and consumer procedure
all towards increasing importance to them.
 Employees Relations: It involves labour law and relations, working environment,
workers health and safety, quality of work life and so on.
Human Resources Management Practices:
HR practices are referred through which human resources can evolve leadership of their staff.
This happens by activity of improving extensive training and motivational programs like
dividing methods to direct and help in performing current performance appraisals (Albrecht and
et.al., 2015). There are many HRM practices such as:
 Giving employee security
 Selective recruiting
 Self-managed team
 Creating flat and equalitarian company
 Preparing information effectively to those who need it (Human Resource best practices,
2018).
 Training in applicable skills.
 Performance based compensation.
Each and Every practice can be helpful for employees as well as company in relation to improve
the performance, developing skills and knowledge to employees within the Arcadia Group.

CONCLUSION
This report has summarized that creating job specification for human resource
administrator within selected firm. It can be concluded that preparing job offer letter, interview
notes and selection criteria for chosen job position. It can be discussed that importance of
employee relations and human resources management practices in the firm.

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Books and Journals
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Nachmias, S., Caven, V. and Bradshaw, S., 2019. Inequality and Organisational Practice:
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Pantouvakis, A. and Karakasnaki, M., 2018. The role of agility and organisational learning
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Pedersen, P. and et.al., 2017. Comparing multidisciplinary and brief intervention in employees
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