Writing Job Descriptions and Person Specifications

Course Overview

This course is provided by Learning4Business. Having completed this course you should be able to carry out a job analysis, write an accurate job description and write an accurate person specification.

Achievement of the learning outcomes means that you will be in a position to analyse job vacancies and come to objective conclusions in the form of an accurate job description and person specification. By having these two documents you put yourself in a good position to attract and recruit the right person, since the nature of the job will be clear to the applicant, and the applicant’s suitability for the job will be clear to the recruiter.

For any organisation or company its people are its lifeblood; finding and hiring the right people, however, is a major challenge, given the competition for staff with the right skills, knowledge and attitude. For this reason it is vital that any person with a responsibility for, or a role within, staff recruitment is highly competent to perform that function. Failure to ensure this competence will result in an inability to attract the right people, and/or a failure to identify those people at the time of recruitment.

The course is divided into 5 sections covering the following areas:

• how to carry out a job analysis
• the key elements of an accurate job description
• designing job descriptions
• the elements of an accurate person specification
• designing person specifications

How It Works

The information below is specific to this particular course. If you would like a more general guide to how our purchasing and learning works please visit the Four Easy Steps page which should tell you all you need to know.

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What

This is an online course, all the training will be taken through your browser window. There will be no face-to-face sessions with instructors nor will you receive any training material through the post. If you wish you may print out any page of the training material, and may also print the notes you took during the training.

You can also revisit the training material at any time, even after you have completed the course.

How

The material for this course has been broken down into several smaller lessons, each lesson dealing with a specific area of the overall subject.

The lesson consist of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk you through the lesson material at a pace that suits you. Pages may also include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help you keep in touch and interested in the material.

Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be PAUSED and RESUMED at any stage. When all lessons in the course have been completed our system will realise and automatically record that you have successfully completed the course

When

The course is self-paced so you decided how fast or slow the training goes. This course will take approximately 2 hours, however you can complete the course in stages revisiting the training at any time.