Recruitment & Selection Process in BAT ( British American Tobacco)

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Introduction

British American Tobacco (BAT) is a British multinational Tobacco Company, headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

It is the world’s second largest quoted tobacco group by global market share; it has market-leading position in over 50 countries and operations in around 180 countries.

BAT is the only international tobacco group with a significant interest in tobacco leaf growing, working with thousands of farmers internationally.

British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) was established in 1998. They are a leading business organization in the industrial sector employing more than 1,300 employees directly and a further 40,000 indirectly as farmers, distributors and suppliers.

BATB has its headquarter in Dhaka with a tobacco leaf processing operation in kushtia. The first factory was set up in Fauzdarhat area of Chittagong in 1954. The second factory was set up in 1965 in Dhaka.

Currently, BATB has two factories in Bangladesh. The Cigarette Manufacturing Factory is located on the same premises as the Head Office in Mohakhali, Dhaka. The Green Leaf Threshing Plant (GLTP) is situated in Kushtia.

• Human Resource Development is the integrated use of training, organization, and career development efforts to improve individual, group and organizational effectiveness. It develops the key competencies that enable individuals in organizations to perform current and future jobs through planned learning activities.

• BAT ensures HRD in certain areas like talent and organizational development, learning and development, reward, HR marketing and HR operations.

Human Resource Development in BAT

HR helps in planning, implementing, recruitment and selection, training, career and organizational development.

BAT being a multinational enterprise it needs high-skilled employees. HR is important to recruit better deserving staffs.

HR is also required in performance evaluation of employees.

It also helps to understand strength and weakness' of employees.

Objectives of Human Resource

Human Resource Functions in BAT

• The major functional areas in human resource management are:

• Planning

• Staffing

• Employee development

• Employee maintenance.

Basic HR Functions

Planning

In planning BAT goes with three key elements-

Forecasting Staffing Needs

Evaluating Supply

Balance Supply and Demand

StaffingStaffing

Nature of Staffing Functions that BAT follows:

Staffing is performed by all managers.

They prefer cv’s they get from web as well as from different competitions they arrange like “battle of minds”.

Employee Maintenance

• Orientation Program

• Induction Program

• Nice Environment

Training and DevelopmentTraining and Development

• Training Modules

• Provide Training Centre

Recruitment & Selection

Performance Appraisal

Compensation

Rewards and Benefits

Discipline

BAT’s HR practices

• Recruitment is a process of attracting individual on a timely basis in sufficient numbers and with appropriate qualifications and encouraging them to apply for jobs within an organization.

• The recruitment process takes about a month from beginning to the employment. The process starts by the need of a personnel following post, or manpower required in a certain wing or department of the project.

Recruitment Process

Recruitment Process in BAT

1.Put out job advertising

Online application Form. Candidates download an application form and fill in the necessary details for the primary requirements of the job.(age, name etc)

British American Tobacco Bangladesh has been in e-resourcing since 2002.

2. Filter application forms

Filtering the candidates to be called for interview takes about 7 days to evaluate. In this process, the applications both online and via mail are evaluated on the basis of accordance with the requirements of the certain post.

3.Preliminary Interview

After the application is successful, Candidate will be invited to a preliminary interview which will be taken by a member from the function to which you have applied and a member of the Human Resource team.

Recruitment Process in BAT

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4. Short listing

Second filtrations of candidates take place. The candidates receiving the board’s attention is short-listed for the second date of final interview. After the preliminary interview session, the qualified candidates are short listed again from the assessment centre.

5. Selecting

After overall process on the interview board is evaluated in the assessment centre and rated by the board of members. To identify their knowledge and skills by using various techniques were used such as:

Employment testAssessing candidate through interview Physical ability test

Selection Process in BAT

Selection Process in BAT

Assessment Centre

The candidates who selected in the preliminary interview are invited to a specifically designed British American Tobacco assessment centre.

This provides them with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and performance.

Various Test

BAT follows some selection evaluation test in the assessment centre to select the best candidate, the techniques are:

Employment testAssessing candidate through interviewPhysical ability test

Selection Process in BAT

Employment Test

BAT follows the Psychometric testing for employees. This is a test measures candidates :

Analytical ability Computation ability

Verbal skillWritten skill

Assessing candidate through interview

Mainly three steps are followed in the selection procedure.

First Phase: Handle ability is measured.

Second Phase: Individual skill is measured

Third Phase: Measure the passion and the thrill in the employees to join BAT

Physical ability test

• The physical test is administered by Medinova Dhaka to measure the HIV, Hepatitis B, C or such many diseases in its applicant’s health and fitness for job effort.

Various Test in Assessment Centre

Finally the Last Step…..

Final Interview Hired

Recruitment Sources in BAT

Internal Recruitment Sources Of BAT

1. Can create organizational inbreeding, candidates may have a limited perspective.

2. May cause political infighting for promotions.

3. Places heavy burden on training and development.

Disadvantages1. Rewards good

works of current employee.

2. Can asses easily as known the past records.

3. Improve morale

4. Its cost-effective

5. Can result in succession of promotions.

Advantages

Pros & Cons of Internal Recruitment at BAT

External Recruitment Sources of BAT

Pros & Cons of External Recruitment at BAT

Bringing new ideas and talent into the organizations get needed competencies.

Help company to get needed competencies.

Provide cross-industry insight.

Helps company to meet equal employment opportunity

Advantages

May result in misplacement

Increases recruitment costs

May cause morale problems for the internal candidates.

Need longer adjustment time as well.

Disadvantages