Tesco
Recruitment Practices and Procedures
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October 2007
Recruitment Practices and Procedures
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Low Income Areas
Tesco is the United Kingdom's leading retailer and the country's largest private sector employer. To expand its success in its food retail operations, Tesco made multi-million pound investments in food store development in low-income areas. By linking with like-minded public and private sector organizations such as local community based organizations, colleges, and chambers of commerce, the company has opened three locations in economically disadvantaged areas of Leeds, Durham, and Glasgow and plans to open three more stores this year.
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Tesco used a genius strategy which included huge investments in local employee training with extra focus on the long term unemployed. In order to cooperate with the local labor pools, the company invested a lot of time and huge amounts of money in order to develop literacy, as well as retail skills, and adapted the corporate recruitment process to enable trainees to the transition from welfare to working fulltime for the company without losing benefits.
Selected jobs were offered based on attitude, aptitude instead of the usual qualifications. This meant a great opportunity for people who are determined and highly motivated to work, yet couldn't find an appropriate job which suited them. Basically everyone who seemed a potential candidate and was seriously interested in a job at the company was given the opportunity to learn the appropriate skills. The recruitment process guaranteed locally unemployed people a job before tr ...