Selecting staff

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• Can an employer use an automated process in making shortlisting decisions?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Do job applicants have the right to see notes made on them at interview?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Key recruitment analytics 2018

  Date:

  23 March 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR's annual research reports on key recruitment metrics, including cost- and time-to-hire, and finds that skills shortages and quality of applicants remain an issue in a strong labour market.

• How to comply with the duty to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Upwardly mobile: Why phones are now first choice for assessment

  Date:

  16 March 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  With changing candidate preferences, smartphone assessment has become the top priority for employers, says Richard Justenhoven - product director at cut-e, part of Aon's assessment solutions group.

• Can you predict which candidates will be the most engaged employees?

  Date:

  24 January 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Employers can now assess and hire those job candidates who are most likely to be engaged - a vital area for employers trying hard to maintain employee motivation and productivity, writes David Barrett.

• Could an 'intelligent assistant' help you hire the best candidate?

  Date:

  10 January 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Predictive algorithms, machine learning and Alexa-like 'intelligent assistants' will revolutionise recruitment, says Dr Achim Preuss.

• Disability discrimination: Requirement for job applicant with Asperger's syndrome to complete multiple choice test was discriminatory

  Date:

  31 December 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Government Legal Service v Brookes [2017] IRLR 780 EAT, the EAT held that an applicant for a solicitors' training scheme who has Asperger's syndrome suffered unlawful disability discrimination when she was required to sit a test in a multiple choice format in the recruitment process.

• Recruitment selection

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include details of Jet2.com Ltd v Denby, in which the EAT considered if protection against discrimination for trade union membership extended to involvement in certain trade union activities.

• Is testing candidates before they apply the future of recruitment?

  Date:

  15 November 2017

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Psychometric tests used to be long, formal exercises candidates would take some way into the recruitment process. But could testing potential applicants before they even apply mean employers get a better fit, or more of the same? Peter Crush investigates.