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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Bite-Sized UK Employment Episode One – Recruitment - Cooley

Bite-Sized UK Employment

Looking to fill a vacancy in the UK but don't know where to begin? Our bite-sized series on the employment life cycle is here to break down the points that really matter. In the first episode, Cooley partners Ann Bevitt and Chris Stack guide you through the recruitment journey, from crafting job descriptions to handling privacy notices and everything in between.

Transcript

Chris Stack (00:00)

Welcome to our employment law bite-size series where we'll be telling you everything you need to know about the points in the employment life cycle that really matter. And we're going to start today by looking at recruitment. Assuming you've got a role that you need to fill, where do you go from there?

Ann Bevitt (00:14)

Job description. So you need a good job description that sets out the duties, the responsibilities, reporting line details like part-time, fixed-term, full-time, hybrid, homeworking, whatever. Anything that a candidate is going to want to know. Bear in mind, you need to be very careful to identify only the necessary requirements. So things like experience. Think about what are the skills, what are the expertise and experience behind that?

Chris Stack (00:41)

Then you need to advertise the role. You'll probably do it internally and externally, and remember, if you're going to use a recruitment agent, you need to have terms and conditions in place with the agency that you're comfortable are fitting for the process that you...



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