SITXHRM004

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to coordinate the recruitment, selection and induction of new staff members within the framework of existing human resource policies and procedures. It requires the ability to identify recruitment needs, develop selection criteria, process and evaluate applications, select people according to their attitude, aptitude and fit to the position and coordinate induction programs.

The unit applies to senior personnel who operate independently or with limited guidance from others, including dedicated specialist staff or operational or senior managers.

It applies to all tourism, travel, hospitality and event sectors.

Unit mapping information

SITXHRM501 Recruit, select and induct staff

Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Foundation skills

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Unit sector or competency field

Cross-Sector—Human Resource Management

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

Not applicable

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in a tourism, travel, hospitality or events business operation or activity for which new staff members are recruited and selected. This can be:

• an industry workplace
• a simulated industry environment

Assessment must ensure access to:

• operational information about the organisation or activity subject to recruitment
• organisational specifications that are industry current:

  • recruitment and induction documentation

  • job descriptions, linked selection criteria and interview questions

  • key human resource policies

• multiple applicants with whom the individual can interact; these can be:

  • those in an industry workplace who are assisted by the individual during the assessment process; or

  • individuals who participate in role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, in a simulated industry environment operated within a training organisation

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.