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Purpose
The Staff Recruitment Policy has been established to ensure [enter-your-company-name-here] has the opportunity to attract the best available staff for all vacant positions. 

Policy 
[enter-your-company-name-here] is committed to providing high quality products and services. To support the achievement of this objective we recognise the importance of employing the most suitable applicants for vacant positions.

[enter-your-company-name-here] will ensure it has the opportunity to attract the best available staff by broadly advertising all vacant positions. 

[enter-your-company-name-here] will also internally advertise all vacant positions to current staff to encourage career advancement and to promote local opportunities.

Procedures
•	All positions may be advertised through relevant networks, on relevant websites, through local employment services, and in national and local newspapers.

•	All advertisements must be approved by the (title) and, if the cost exceeds the allocated budget, by the Board.

•	All contact regarding the position is to be directed through reception, with all applications marked “Confidential” and posted to the (title).

•	Basic records of the recruitment process are to be maintained. Records should include information about position descriptions sent, applications received (including applicants’ names, addresses and contact numbers), a list of applicants short-listed and interviewed, and a record that applicants have been notified of outcomes.

•	Letters of acknowledgment will be posted to all written applications prior to the short-listing of final suitable applicants. 

•	Applicants who do not meet the key selection criteria and are not suitable to be short-listed for an interview will be sent a written rejection letter.

•	The short-listing and interview process will be conducted by a panel which will include the (title). If an applicant is a family member or friend of a staff member, then the panel will be selected accordingly to protect the process and declaration of interest. 

•	At the conclusion of the recruitment process, all applications will be filed for five years in the Staff Recruitment File in the (title's) office.