Hiring new staff – guide for members
May 21, 2025
The process you use for recruiting employees is vital to your company’s success. You need to be sure that you will have enough funds and work available to recruit for vacant or newly created posts. You also need to choose individuals with a high standard of work ethic and a positive attitude.
Once you hire a new employee, you need to ensure they receive training, support and guidance to ensure they meet your expectations and you theirs.
Being a SNIPEF member, one of the employment issues that we can offer you support and guidance on, is recruitment. We offer advice on the full recruitment process, from start to finish, including:
- Job Descriptions
- Person Specifications
- Advertising your job vacancy (you can do that on SNIPEF job board here)
- Shortlisting and Interviewing
- Offer of Employment
- Informing unsuccessful candidates
- Checking credentials
- Creating Induction Programmes
- Probationary reviews
Are you currently recruiting? Are you looking for advice with recruitment?
Members can read the ‘SNIPEF Employer Guide: Recruitment, induction and probation’ here or email Linda.Ferguson@snipef.org for advice.
If you are not currently a SNIPEF member and are interested in finding out more information on our membership, please e-mail membership@snipef.org direct.
