• Recruitment overview
• Job description
• Person specification
• Diversity and equality
• Head hunting and poaching
• Advertising
• Applications and short listing
• Testing
• Interviewing
• Selection
• Offer of employment
• Checks

• Case studies
• Resources
• Further reading

• People In Aid Code

Selection

The final decision about which candidate to offer the post to may be taken by the interviewers themselves but for any senior or key post, the programme manager should be involved.

If none of the candidates are suited to the post, it is far better to start the process again than risk recruiting the wrong person.

Details of strong but unsuccessful candidates can usefully be retained for other posts although setting up a system to do so is harder than one imagines.