National Occupational Standards in
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AJ5 Select personnel for activities

AJ5.1 Identify personnel requirements

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. clearly and accurately identifying the organisational objectives and constraints affecting personnel requirements
2. consulting with relevant people on personnel requirements in a timely and confidential manner
3. ensuring that your estimates of personnel requirements are based on an accurate analysis of sufficient, up-to-date and reliable information
4. ensuring that the specifications you develop are clear, accurate and comply with organisational and legal requirements
5. ensuring that the specifications you develop identify fair and objective criteria for selection
6. ensuring that the specifications you develop are agreed with relevant people prior to recruitment action.

Occupational Context

1. Personnel
   • internal
   • external
   • permanent
   • temporary
   • full-time
   • part-time
   • paid
   • voluntary
2. Relevant people
   • team members
   • colleagues working at the same level as yourself
   • senior managers
   • personnel specialists
   • members of the selection team
3. Specifications
   • key purpose of the posts
   • individual and team roles and responsibilities
   • required individual and team competencies
   • other details specific to the organisation.

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know and understand how to:

• How to make a case for additional personnel requirements in a way which is likely to influence decision-makers positively
• How to collect and validate the information needed to specify personnel requirements.
• How to identify personnel needs for your team and specify job roles, competences and attributes required to meet these needs
• How to identify fair and objective criteria for the selection of staff

You need to know about:

Involvement and motivation

• The issues for which consultation with relevant people may be necessary and how to do so
• The importance of agreeing personnel requirements in advance with relevant people.

Legal requirements

• The legal requirements for the specification of personnel requirements including the disability discrimination act and equal opportunities legislation

Organisational context

• The work objectives and constraints which have a bearing on identifying personnel requirements

Recruitment and selection

• The methods of specifying personnel requirements and their relative advantages and disadvantages to your work
• The types of information necessary to specify personnel requirements

Required Skills

• N/A

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can identify personnel requirements

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• identify personnel requirements

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in selecting personnel for a diverse range of activities

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