Selecting staff

New and updated

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Recruitment challenges during the pandemic

  Date:

  6 April 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  What should employers do if they have new hires due to start work during the current crisis? Jo Faragher asks HR professionals and recruitment specialists for their advice.

• Making job offers

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect changes in entitlement to the written statement of employment particulars and that probationary terms must be included, effective from 6 April 2020.

• Letter making formal offer of employment

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect changes to the provisions on written statements from 6 April 2020.

• Letter postponing a new recruit's start date because of the coronavirus outbreak

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated with the Government's clarification on the date by which an employee has to be on the employer's payroll to be furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Protection Scheme.

• Letter withdrawing a new recruit's job offer because of the coronavirus outbreak

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to retract a new recruit's job offer because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

• Can an employer that is affected by the coronavirus crisis postpone a new recruit's start date or withdraw a job offer?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Recruitment selection techniques

  Type:

  Good practice manual

  Updated to include a case study about a targeted recruitment campaign at a hotel group.

• Key recruitment metrics survey 2019/2020

  Date:

  20 November 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR research provides data on key recruitment metrics that can help employers benchmark the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their organisation's recruitment process.

• Guide improves recruitment for visibly different candidates

  Date:

  23 September 2019

  Type:

  News

  Changing Faces has launched a guide to help employers provide a positive recruitment process for people with a visible difference such as a mark or scar.

• Recruitment: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to take into account the extension of the SMR and CR to all FCA-authorised firms on 9 December 2019.