Hint & Tips - Employing People

Designed to provide you with valuable hints and tips, we have created a wide range of helpful factsheets to help you gain more information on important business topics.

Recruitment and Selection
This factsheet sets out steps that you may wish to consider when recruiting new people. It contains useful information on how to attract applicants, short listing and how to prepare for interviews.

Retaining your Employees
Contains practical tips that will help employers to retain the right people within their business. It highlights information on the importance of a formal induction programme, setting the culture of the business and ensuring open communication.

Pay and Reward
Includes useful Hints and Tips on how to offer the right mix of reward to your employees. The factsheet covers the different types of pay systems plus incentives such as benefits and flexible working.

Restructuring and Redundancy
This factsheet sets out areas that an employer might wish to consider when contemplating restructuring their workforce.

Training and Developing Your Employees
Investing in the training and development of people working in your business can improve productivity, reduce staff turnover and encourage retention. This factsheet looks at a number of areas that an employer may wish to consider for training and developing their employees and also provides a section on where to go for further help.

Interview and Induction
Most employers recognise that their people are their greatest asset and the organisation’s success is heavily reliant on having the right mix of skills and abilities. This factsheet sets out the steps that an employer may wish to consider when recruiting new people.

Your First Employee - Staying on thr Right Side of the Law
This factsheet provides a basic overview of the major employment law legislation affecting the employer/employee relationship.