Position Requirements

Position Requirements (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Sourcing Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to employment vacancies and related topics.

WorldOpp Pipeline

This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Recruitment session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.

Content

The predecessor lectio is Employment Vacancies.

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Script

Position requirements are the requirements that a holder of a particular rank position has to meet. Employers impose some requirements; the others may be imposed by law, government authority, or contracts.

Requirements may vary widely. For instance, if a movie maker needs a one-year old girl for a cast, the requirements would include the age and gender.

Some government jobs may require security clearances. In the United States, the clearance is an official determination that an individual may access information classified by the United States Federal Government. Security clearances are hierarchical; each level grants the holder access to information in that level and the levels below it. They are complex; several agencies such as FBI conduct separate checks.

In the United States, background checks shall comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act; that particularly means that the candidates must grant their consent on those checks. The employer, or independent professional investigation firms that the employer has hired to conduct those checks, must provide the candidate with the information they obtain as the result of the checks.

Some background checks are conducted once, at the time of hiring; the others may be conducted periodically.

The federal law requires criminal background checks for positions associated with the handling of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, animals, or working with children.

A driver license could be required if the employee needs to drive a vehicle. A commercial driver license (CDL) may be required if the employee is supposed to drive special types of vehicles.

Other requirements may include drug tests, driving records, employment physicals, vaccinations, security clearances, and so on.

Sourcing Strategies is the successor lectio.

Recruiters unofficially call hard those requirements that the candidates have to meet . A job description may call them minimum and indicate that the candidates have to meet or exceed the them. However, the employer has more flexibility with the requirements that this employer originated. If the requirements are imposed by the contract between the customer and employer, the employer has no flexibility.