• 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

Advertising

There are a wide range of ways to advertise posts including:

• The internet – the vacancies page on ReliefWeb or your organisations own web site
• Local email distribution lists or web-sites i.e. umbrella organisations or Humanitarian Information Centres
• Newspapers – local, national or international
• Notices – outside your office and those of other organisations
• Word of mouth

Each method has advantages and disadvantages which are summarised in resources.

• Advertise too widely, and you will be overloaded with applications which you may not be able to process.
• Advertise too narrowly, and you may get insufficient or inappropriate applications.

See resources for a checklist of what to include in an advertisement.

In an emergency, consider at least notices outside your office and those of other organisations, local email distribution lists or web-sites and word-of-mouth as a minimum for national recruitment.

Think carefully how applications will be received – avoid any unauthorised or inadvertent screening