Recruitment—best practice—checklist


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Recruitment—best practice—checklist


Published by a ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô Employment expert

Checklists
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STOP PRESS: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published draft guidance on keeping employment records and recruitment and selection which is open for consultation until 5 March 2024, and has also removed the employment practices code (first published in March 2022, and last updated in November 2011) and supplementary guidance from its employment information page. For more information, see Q&A: What is the status of the ICO employment practices code? and ICO removes employment practices code and related guidance from its Employment information guidance page, LNB News 15/12/2023 112. This Practice Note will be updated once the ICO draft guidance is finalised.

This checklist provides a summary of the factors that an employer should consider before, and during, the recruitment process. It takes account of the Employment practices code (Code) issued by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the supplementary guidance to the Code, although these have not been updated to take account of Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679, UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). For information on the

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