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GCSE Business · key term
A document setting out the essential and desirable qualifications, experience, skills and personal attributes of a suitable candidate.
Used by AQA, Edexcel and OCR
Paper 1
A document setting out the essential and desirable qualifications, skills, experience and personal qualities required of a job applicant.
Revise: Recruitment and SelectionWrite a person specification.** This describes the person needed for the job. It identifies essential and desirable qualifications, experience, skills and personal qualities.
Specification 2.5.2 · Paper 2
A document setting out the essential and desirable qualifications, experience, skills and attributes needed by someone doing a job.
Revise: Effective RecruitmentOnce a staffing need has been identified, the employer prepares a job description and a person specification. They answer different questions: What does the job involve? and What does someone need to do it well?
Paper 1
Revise: Recruitment MethodsThe person specification might require communication skills and list previous supervisory experience as desirable. The responsibility belongs in the job description; the qualities needed to carry it out belong in the person specification.
Keep the documents distinct: a job description describes the job; a person specification describes the person needed to do it. Job analysis is the investigation used to prepare both.
Keep the documents distinct: a job description describes the job; a person specification describes the person needed.
Keep the documents distinct: a job description describes the job; a person specification describes the suitable person.
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