Recruitment at Asda – creating a job

My group decided to do a group project on ASDA supermarket. The job vacancy we chose for the position is for Check out Assistance. We believe that this level of position is not a high rank post and it may not require high skills to perform the job. The main job role for the position is to work in tills, have good communication skills and knowledge working in the retail sector. For the vacancy post we decided that the level of job required for the candidates to must have is a basic educational level of minimum GCSE in Maths and English grade C or above.

Because these are the main essential skills needed as we fell that candidates main duties are to deal with customers and being at the till area as a result they need to speak English to communicate well with the customers. We thought that a candidate should have a good personalities as it reflects the job that they are doing as they represent the company. So therefore candidate should be approachable, friendly, easy going and mostly flexible. They should be able to know how to handle with aggressive customers and be able to be flexible when changing shifts.

We have discussed that the hour of work should be 37 hours per week and the wage should be i?? 5. 37 per hour. We think this is the national minimum wage a person is entitle to get as it is set by the law. It would have been illegal for us to just make up the wage so we had to comply with the law. The location of the vacancy is arisen in Nuneaton. We have all agreed upon those above decisions to further carry out the group task more efficiently and come up with the best documents. Basically we have discuss what should make up a good job description and a person specification.

For the job description, I felt that it was simply straight forward for me to create the document. I chose to produce my document in MS word because I am familiar with using the overall tools and designs. As I believe the whole point of the job description is to briefly explain to the candidate what the job entails and gives an overview of the job. So I assume in a job description there isn’t much needed to design the layout of the document instead I think it is extremely important to keep the information clear and readable for the candidate to actually read through it properly.

However, I believe having a logo on Asda will enhance the look of my document as the logo represents the company. All this points I have mentioned are from my original documents which I have applied to it. I have got a table in the beginning of the document because I feel that it is important to give the important information in short sentences or in a table so that it will be helpful for the candidate to see the important points quicker as a result its not time consuming for them to find out the main points of the document. For the important points I applied them with bold headings and big font size so that it can be notified it easily.

I kept my document simple which makes it look professional and clearer to read. I also took some of the information from task 2 where I had said that I would consider and would applied to my document as I think it might be helpful for me to have a more professional version of the document. As those document are from a real company whereas my document is a first time attempt document. I kept my job description short and used bullet points which is to make it easier to understand as well as simple and clear to read as a the brief summary of the assignment.

The description of essential job task and duties required the candidate to know. The language I have used is very formal and straight to the point which is useful for the candidate to easily read and understand making it not boring for them to read. My group discussed about the good and the bad points of all our individual documents. All of our document were slightly different from one another. However, all of us had the same information that needed to be in a job description. The only main difference were the layout and the overall design of the document and how much information each document included.

When comparing my document with my group members I found their documents of the layout design were quite interesting but I felt they had too much design making it look a bit unprofessional. I assume my layout design was lacking from rest of my group member documents. But the main important points of my documents such as the table information and the key task ideas were originally used from my document. However, not only my information was being used, everyone information were collided bits by bits and created the privileges and holidays together with everyone ideas together.

At last we also came up with a suitable layout and design for every document making the same design and layout thoroughly for every documents. So therefore we tried our best ability to put everyone ideas forward and produced the final job description together. So for this document we did not choose anyone document because we felt that in some point everyone documents were lacking such as the layout design which made everyone document look unprofessional so we decided to collied everyone information together to make a professional job description to make it attractive for the candidate to read as well as understand.