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- Employment Laws
- Establishing a Recruitment & Selection Program
- The Recruitment Process
- Selection Techniques
- Employment Tests
- Selecting the Employee
- Legal Issues in Recruitment & Selection
(based on Ch 5. of Principles of Security Management)
In
light of what we learned earlier about systemic problems in the
private security industry, what are some reasons why recruitment
and selection are particularly important issues for companies
in this field?
- must reduce high turnover
- security personnel are placed in high-stress situations, must earn trust of clients and co-workers
- even if you want to add high-value-added, high-revenue services, can't if you don't have quality personnel to execute
- danger that a poorly-screened employee may do something dangerous and/or illegal that would hurt the company.
- high turnover may produce "churn"
-- employees simply move from one company to another, resulting
in high costs of discharging old employee, recruiting new one,
plus training.
- any of employment processes may end up in courts, and both laws and case law require employers to assure their practices are both legal and non-discriminatory.