Senior Security Officer: Recruitment, Selection, and Induction Report

This report details the recruitment, selection, and induction process for a Senior Security Officer (SSO) at Unity Resources Group, an Australian security service provider. It begins with an introduction to the company and its new facility, followed by an organizational chart illustrating the SSO's position. The report outlines the SSO's responsibilities, including training, security monitoring, and ensuring business security functions. A detailed job description for the SSO position is provided, along with a comprehensive recruitment plan encompassing timelines, job advertising, interview schedules, and background checks. The report also includes a list of proposed selection panel members and their roles, a spreadsheet pro-format for candidate assessment, and a discussion of selection methods, including external selection. The report concludes with an overview of the interview schedule and a comparison of candidate responses to key interview questions.

RECRUIT, SELECT
AND INDUCT STAFF

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION-..........................................................................................................................3
Description of new facility...........................................................................................................3
Organizational chart showing senior security officer position....................................................4
SSO position include plan to obtain.............................................................................................4
Job description for SSO position in company..............................................................................5
Recruitment plan including timelines..........................................................................................5
List of proposed selection panel membership and its roles.........................................................7
Spreadsheet pro-format................................................................................................................8
Selection methods........................................................................................................................9
Schedule for interviewing of potential applicants.....................................................................10
CONCLUSION- ...........................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION-
Recruitment, induction and selection of staff is one of the most significant part of human
resource procedure to hire, recruit and induct new applicants within organization. Selection, and
recruitment is very important in business in order to drive an effective workforce. By recruiting
people, management build strong team and by selecting the right candidates for job position they
can achieve objectives as well as goals of business effectively (Bhoganadam and Rao, 2014).
The present report is based on Unity resources group, it is one of the Australian company who
provide their security services to people or other entities. This study explain the new facility that
firm begin to provide, organizational chart that shows senior security officer position and
justifies SSO job. Furthermore, the current report clarifies job description, recruitment plan, list
of selection panel members and their roles. It also explain selection methods, schedule for
interviewing of potential applicants and spreadsheet format use for recording assessments of
applications received.
Description of new facility
Unity resources group is Australian security service provider and consulting organization,
they provide their services to non government, government and multinational business industry.
Company offer their service to those people who need security for personal reason and also cater
to many corporations. They start new facility which is beneficial for overall business, providing
trained and strong people is one of that facility. It is the best practice of securing persons,
buildings and essential resources of business. They run its business effectively within market,
many government and non government companies take their help and hire people in their agency
for protecting themselves. According to this new business facility, organization transfer their
talented people from one firm to another for protecting events as well as functions. These
workers helps to prevent business and essential assets effectively. They staffed only Australian
people in company, Managed security service effectively within service sector. security is the
main responsibility of this company which help to assure people for safe environment. The
confidentiality, availability of information assuring that data is not compromised in any term
when major problem arise. By providing this service, firm ensure business to operate functions
and daily operations effectively rather than before (Crump, 2015). Accordant to facility,
organizations can secure data, important documents and other assets without any risk of
disclosure. Skilled team workers protect property, events and person by providing skilled guards

beneficial. Organization workers is accountable for keeping all of resources within business
secure from competiotors that is attempt to get critical essential things. Senior security officer
within organization effectively handle this new facility and accomplish all the responsibilities.
Organizational chart showing senior security officer position
Organizational chart shows the position of senior security officer in organization.
SSO position include plan to obtain
Senior security officer monitors premises of building, performance of workers in efforts
to enhance their work. They provide training to employees, responsible for improving and
developing skills of workers. SSO is high level executive directly accountable for organization
physical security demands and also its electronic and digital security needs. Originally, the title
used to designate person most accountable for overall security the new SSO looks at institutes
correct security programs. Senior security officer role is to assure that business security
Illustration 1: Senior security officer position
(Source: SSO position, 2018)

functions adds value, and provide it competitive benefits. They are accountable for improving
and enhancing physical security, they should determine organizational protection objectives and
goals. SSO oversee network of staff and manager with state, federal and local law enforcement.
Job description for SSO position in company
Job Description
Department: Security department
Job title: Senior security officer
Report to: Director of security
Position summary-
Under the director of security of Unity resources group, SSO is accountable for delivery and
development of comprehensive security plan. Senior security officer is accountable for
providing directions to front line security workers and protect ambassadors through course of its
duties.
Position duties, competencies and responsibilities-
Coordinate with team, responsible for protecting organization staff, write daily activities reports
and supervise security team. Must have communication skill, IT knowledge, leaderships ability
and motivation competence. Senior security officer should follow all the legal procedure and
work effectively.
Recruitment plan including timelines
It is refer to the prearranged strategy for recruiting top talented workers, recruitment plan
acts as timelines for organization to find skilled candidates and qualified people without causing
down time for business, it identified the specific goals for SSO position (What is Recruitment
Plan?, 2019). In strategic recruitment plan there are many essential things has been included,
specially the position company need to hire for, budget information, assessment tools, timelines
etc. furthermore, this plan helps to make hiring procedure smoother and also help employers to
assure that they are getting individual with skills and knowledge required to do senior security
officer job.
Recruitment timelines-
It is the sequence of chronological function that makes up an persons recruiting
procedure from start to commitment. Timelines clearly defines for each function between

moment recruiter recruit person. The day recruiter start their recruitment process market with day
1 and receives first offer market with day 2. Good time frame includes better calculation buffer
times in case of any unforeseen situations.
Job advertising plan-
Recruiter make plan for advertising job by using different market strategies or plans, it is
one of the most essential components in this whole procedure. In advertisement plan, they need
to mention clearly the job title, some information about firm and other important factors that
helps to drive people toward them.
Interview schedule-
After passing all above criteria, they need to make interview schedule associated with a
lot of questions relevant to job position within Unity resources group (Holm and Haahr, 2018).
Interview schedule is create by recruiter, in which they mention the list of structured questions
that has prepared, to provide as guide for interviewers in selecting applicants.
Background check-
it is the procedure of authenticating detail supplied to potential employer by job
candidates in their resume. According to this element, recruiter check the background
information of candidates that helps to assure that, person is applicable to fill the job SSO job
position.
Recruitment sources-
Job board,web search and social media is considered as the best recruitment sources that
is included in recruitment plan. Web search helps to find out the great job opportunity for many
qualified applicants by doing google resume search. Social media is also consider as most
modern source of recruitment, because there are many people's who have accounts in social
media selection.
Recruitment methods-
Recruitment method is beneficial during recruiting and hiring applicants, external
requirement is the best method will use by company for running their procedure effectively.
Job advertisement copy-

List of proposed selection panel membership and its roles
Selection panel is the group of members committed to selecting and interviewing
individual for SSO position within organization. This procedure is beneficial for business
because it helps to provides varying perspectives and benefits department by including workers
in hiring decision. All the panel members conduct interview as unit and suggest the most top
candidates for particular position within company (Kepha, Mukulu and Waititu, 2014). Each
person in this team should make commitment to follow and understand selection stay by equal
employment opportunity. There are the list of all members-
Director of security-

Security director is responsible to manage staff of security guards effectively, as well as
surveillance personnel, who is accountable for inspecting and patrolling organization aspects
against theft. They are also accountable for choosing and selecting applicant, implement security
rules, policies and regulations.
CEO-
Within organizational structure CEO is also considered as one of of the most essential
member of selection panel, they give the final approval for selecting person as SSO position.
They are accountable for communicating on behalf of organization with stakeholders effectively,
they also responsible for communicating with senior officers related to work performance of
workers. They implement and create organizational vision and mission, communicate with team
leaders as well as manager to achieve it as soon as possible to gain competitive advantages.
Human resource manager-
HR manager is the second main members in this panel, they are responsible for planning
training programs for existing as well as new applicants. They develop policies, coordinate with
employees to solve their issues (Ladkin and Buhalis, 2016). Their duties will include managing
activities such as employee relations, job design, selection and recruitment etc. HRM is
accountable to review candidates materials such as letter of interest, resume and references. They
are responsible for determining the best competitive applicants to interview. Human resource
manager in company enhance the performance of workers as well as organization by
planning,evaluating and implementing employees relations.
Leaders-
Leader is included in selection panel, they work with team for completing task, it is
essential for them to know more about new applicants because in future they has to work with
them for long time.
Spreadsheet pro-format
Name Education Experience
Renae dak Certification II security operations 6 year
Michelle green Certification II security operations 5 year
Den mark Certification I security operations 3 year
Roy BA pass 2 year
Jorj Senior high school 1 year
Ansh 10 pass 6 month

Selection methods
Selection refer to the procedure of encouraging and identifying prospective workers to
apply for jobs as Senior security officer. In simple words, it is process of picking up the
knowledgable person out of pool of job candidates with competence as well as requisite
qualification to fill position in Unity resources group. There are different types of methods will
used by company for selecting an individual. External selection is one of the best selection
method used by organization for external hiring include, employment agencies. In simple words,
it refer to the evaluation and assessment of external jobs candidates. This method include set of
questions related to job which is associated with rating scales.
Questions related to job
position
Candidate 1 Candidate 1
What are the main
responsibilities of senior
security officer.
they are accountable for
protecting person, assets and
property.
SSO is accountable to
provide security of a person,
execute duties appropriately
and coordinate effectively to
all their team members.
Why do you want to work as
senior security officer.
Because I am interested in this
profession
I want to assure people that
they are living under
comfortable and safe
environment around them.
How comfortable are you
while using computers
As senior security officer I
have to use software
associated with CCTV
cameras. I have experience
using CCTV equipment.
I not comfortable using
computer for some time.
Tell me something about
yourself that is not mention in
your resume
I like to read books I prefer to gain knowledge by
reading news articles, older
case study related to SSO
position.
Rating scale (1 to 5) Candidate 1 Candidate 1
Rating based on
question no 1
1 3
Question no 2 3 5

Question no 3 5 1
Question no 4 3 5
Total score 12 14
From above statement, is has been stated that each candidates answers all the question
but among tow only one applicant is selected that is candidate no 2 who gain high rating score as
compare to other person. Scoring is based on answers given by two people out of 5. selection
criteria is base on rating selection, according to 1 score- criterion is not meet, 3- standards is
meet and 5 standards is exceeds. The questions asked by applicants is mentioned equally, any
type of discrimination is not appropriate.
Schedule for interviewing of potential applicants
Interview is the formal meeting at which management of company is asked some
questions to new candidates in order to find out if they are appropriate for specific job. It is a
conversation in which senior puts questions to person. Within Unity resource group director of
security recruit, induct and select staff with the help of interviewing procedure, they create
schedule for this. Scheduling for interviewing of potential applicants is helpful to start interview
effectively, it is considered as the best time frame that will used before person to be interviewed.
According to this procedure, management need to pay attention on detail of new
applicants, they read the whole information about them and also considered skills required for
job position.
They need to make all the arrangements for meeting the new selected person at
organization, confirm all set up as far in advances as possible. Take a copy of applicants while
conducting interview which is essential for select a person based on knowledge and skills
requirement.
After that, Director of security determine who must participate in interview, consult
schedule of interview with them as early as possible. They need to be consistent with interview
questions as well as format, recheck prepared list of all the questions that will be asked of all
new people. Review all the documents in advance, also consult inappropriate and appropriate
areas of interview inquires before starting the process.

In scheduling for interviewing director need to consider scheduling breaks during
interview for candidates. Furthermore, if the changes is required they confirm overall schedule
and make changes according to it. At last, the most essential part is discussion with all the person
included in interview procedure. Person provide final interview schedule to those person's who
specially involved in it for cross checking.
After making schedule for interview interviewer, make discussion with panel members,
they take decisions and chose which applicant is appropriate to fill the position of SSO in
company, the person is chose based on rating scale.
CONCLUSION-
From above, it has been concluded that Unity resources group required to fill the job
position of Senior security officer because they never had SSO. Within organizational chart this
position is clearly defined, to fill this vacancy applicants need to pass selection procedure. With
the help of job advertisement, qualified person will gather information about this position.
Recruitment plan is created by recruiter in which they include all the essential components such
as timelines, recruitment methods, sources, background check etc. selection panel members play
vital role in selection procedure, they take decision based on talent of people. After taking
interview director of security communicate with member of selection panel to take decision
based on chosen applicants.

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