If you need to employ someone, consider what you want the employee to do and what skills you require. Also consider the employment conditions, level of pay and other costs of employment, which may include training needs, new equipment and facilities, and temporary accommodation for the worker if they are required to relocate for the job.

Prepare a job description that defines the responsibilities and functions of the job. This will help you identify the knowledge, experience and skills required for the job.

When you advertise a job remember that, by law, you must not use discriminatory language that may exclude potential employees on the basis of race, age, sex, marital status, family status or responsibility, pregnancy, religious and political beliefs, disability, gender history or sexual orientation.

Your recruitment process will run more smoothly if you know how to:

• advertise
• interview
• select the right applicant
• draw up and document a formal offer of employment.