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Testing

A few of you asked if you could do some tests that would be used in a selection situation. Here are a few - hopefully we can use them during class but if not, have a go at home and see how you get on.

Pyschometric Tests

Wednesday 20 January 2010

Today in class we continued looking at the HRM material from yesterday and the class worked through questions. The class were asked to finish these questions at home and I will spot-check jotters tomorrow. Remember, you are expected to have read up on the following:

• Recruitment
• Job analysis
• Job description
• Person specification
• Internal sources
• External sources

All the information can be found in:

• Student Notes: Pages 68-75
• Leckie & Leckie: Page 101

As ever, if you have any questions. don't hesitate to ask.

Job Description & Person Specifications

I have added a couple of real life examples of job descriptions and person specifications for you to have a look at. They relate to a Primary Teaching role in the Scottish Borders and appeared on the Times Education Scotland website in the recruitment section. The newspaper is also published each Friday and the jobs appear in that as well. This is an example of external recruitment.

You will see from the attached documents the kind of information which has been researched through the initial job analysis and how it has been split into what the job itself actually entails and what kind of person they are looking for.

Primary Teacher Person Specification

Primary Teacher Person Specification

Primary Teacher Job Description

Primary Teacher Job Description

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Today in class we continued looking at the Human Resource Management unit. We covered the following:

• Recruitment
• Job analysis
• Job description
• Person specification
• Internal sources
• External sources

Please ensure you have done all the reading for this section of Human Resource Management in your own time:

• Student Notes: Pages 68-75
• Leckie & Leckie: Page 101

As ever, if you have any questions. don't hesitate to ask.

Articles to expand your knowledge

I have posted links to various articles down the right side of this blog using delicious. These are stories I have read on the web and thought they would be good for helping to give you real-life scenarios and to develop your understanding.

Again, this is only optional but I think reading about something you have seen in the news and linking it back to what we do in class is a really good way of helping you remember during prelims and exams.

Let me know if you need any help with this!

Icy weather hits milk deliveries - external factor and distribution!

My Higher Business Management class were looking at external factors which can effect the distribution and delivery of goods and on the BBC website tonight, there was an article which illustrates that point.

The recent icy weather has severely affected the distribution of milk as suppliers struggled against the wintry conditions. In order to keep fresh milk in the shops, dairy farmers require collections every day or second day but drivers have struggled to negotiate country roads in eight-wheel tankers. As a result, farms have had to dump milk due because few of them have facilities capable of storing more than a day's stock. This is likely to have a serious financial impact on farmers with the average dairy farm having 120 cows producing up to 2,500 litres every day. In Somerset, one cooperative said it would have to dump more than 10,000 litres.