HR-011 · Recruitment & People
Person Specification Builder
Define the type of person a role genuinely needs, before you judge who might fit it
IN PREPARATION
About this toolkit
This toolkit gives you a straightforward way to build a person specification that separates essential from desirable.
What this toolkit helps you achieve
- Separate essential criteria from merely desirable ones.
- Make every criterion defensible to a rejected candidate.
- Hold every open role to a genuine specification.
What’s included
- Define, Draft, Weight, Validate specification cycle
- Five Golden Rules of writing a person specification
- Guide to the four parts of a person specification
- Twelve-question coaching bank
- Criterion testability matrix
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Best for
Built for any manager who's ever struggled to explain why a candidate was ruled out, beyond a vague sense they weren't quite right.
Expected practical outcome
This toolkit replaces wish lists with criteria you could genuinely defend.