Jamie Oliver Selection Process

Introduction
Working in an organization employees sometime has to work individually or sometime in a team and for working in a team employees need to be capable enough adjusting in the different environment and verity of nature of people as in a team all people are not same in character. Thus employees before working in a team need to prepare mentally and take the challenge of doing it.
Task 1
Critical evaluation of the recruitment, selection and retention procedures of Jamie Oliver’s organization and probable procedures of mine considering legal, regulatory and ethical issues in the selection process
Employees of any organization are the main elements thus can be compared with the life blood of any organization. Thus the recruitment, selection

In this case the main objective of Jamie Oliver was to recruit the unskilled but interested young people who would like to build career in hospitality industry as a chef. For this the recruitment process of Jamie Oliver was followed by some consecutive tests of the interested candidate in which he was himself involved. In this selection process the selectors mainly focused on the future potentials of the candidates and how well the participants perform in the tests. In the selection process first tests that was conducted was to identify the candidate interest in the relevant field thus they were made to talk about foods and being filmed for the assessment of their passion regarding foods and this very first test was effective because of this Oliver was able to drain out the uninterested candidates. At the second stage candidates were being tested their ability of taste of foods so that the selectors can assess candidates ability of expressiveness and that is also require in the workplace. In the third selection stage candidates are tested of their observation power and how efficiently they can copy the observed issues. This skill is also needed in the desired position candidates are being tested for. In Oliver restaurant the retention attempts made were pretty much similar and mainstream generally used in the organization but Oliver tried to provide personal assistance to his employees in much more convincing way. The selected candidates were sent to college for learning the basic skills in the relevant field and after completion of this Oliver himself trained them to match the standard of the restaurant. Oliver provided mental and personal support to the employees when they were demotivated when pressure of works felt. Not only that Oliver also provided