DETERMINED to improve the image of recruitment in Nigeria, the Institute of Professional Recruitment Consultants (IPRC) has developed various human resource solutions in the areas of competency mapping, behavioural event interviewing formats and compensation plan, among others.

Noting that discussing an employee performance fully without first making sure the staff is competent to perform may not yield the desired results, IPRC has developed competency maps for middle, senior and top level management for positions in the oil and gas, banking and insurance, communication, consulting firms, training and the public sector, marketing and sales, construction and the hospitality sector.

According to a statement, the competency maps will encourage Nigerian companies to start operating competency-based human resources management system.

The statement described a Behavioural Event Interview (BEI) as a structured interview that is used to collect information about past behaviour, adding, “it is an interview technique based on the premise that the best predictor of future behaviour is the past behaviour.”

It was learnt that the institute has also developed well-structured BEI questionnaire for all job positions in the oil and gas sector, banking, communications, marketing, sales, manufacturing and public sector.

“IPRC Nigeria has also developed job analysis for different positions in the oil and gas sector, banking, the hospitality industry, marketing and consulting, which contains job specifications and job description and job grading tables showing grade description, job grade, and designations under the grade.”

The IPRC said, “while job grading deals with determination of the relative importance or ranking of jobs in an establishment, for wage setting purposes, the point plan breaks the job into components and evaluates each of these job elements against specially constructed scales.”

Other Human Resource tools developed by the institute are sample employee handbook, sample flexible benefit plan, sample form for compensation and benefits survey, sample interview form, sample job analysis questionnaire and sample KRA forms.

According to the special assistant to the Director General of the institute, Mr. Kola Samuel, any of the solutions can be obtained at the institute.