HR Officers and Internal Recruiters must understand their legal obligations when advertising vacancies and processing applicants. Some employers must also satisfy industry regulators that they are safely on-boarding new members of staff.
Here we offer HR Officers and Internal recruiters some handy guides on recruitment regulation and compliance.
We include tips on safeguarding and safer recruitment, reference requests and more.
Please contact us with your suggestions if you think we should add to our recruitment regulation and compliance advice for HR Officers and Internal Recruiters.
Welcome to Recruiting Made Easy. In this series, we answer the questions that HR and internal recruiters ask most often. The series covers recruiting processes, tech and regulation. Up next: What is Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment? In this article we start with an overview of safeguarding. We learn that safeguarding Read more…
Managing employment reference requests is one of the most time-consuming jobs for any HR Department. For those with safeguarding obligations, new employees cannot start work until all checks are complete. So, delays in collecting employment reference requests can affect an employee start date. Finding new staff members is hard enough, Read more…
Well done! You must have selected your new employee. It’s a good idea to take up references, sometimes mandatory. Now is the time to look for an example Employment Reference Request template. What can you ask when making an Employment Reference Request? HR team have shared their frustration with employment Read more…
The new General Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force during May 2018. It’s time to make sure you’re compliant with this handy GDPR checklist for recruiters. GDPR obliges organisations to manage personal information more securely and acquire individual consents to store and process that data. It covers electronic data and Read more…
Let’s discuss 1-click apply. We’ll check out the benefits, some disadvantages and why General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gets in the way. What is “1-click apply”? “1-click apply” has been offered by job boards such as The Caterer, Indeed and TotalJobs. It allows jobseekers to submit job applications with a Read more…