Recruitment & Selection Process in BAT (British American Tobacco)

1. Recruitment & Selection
Process in BAT ( British
American Tobacco)

3. Israt Chowdhury 1020038
Syeda Nafisa Noor 1020629
Munira Tajim 1020320
Mohd Nasef 1020031
Shahariar Rashid 0811072
Mariyam Abedin 0930061
Group Members

4. Introduction
 British American Tobacco (BAT) is a British
multinational Tobacco Company, headquartered in
London, United Kingdom.
 It is the world’s second largest quoted tobacco group
by global market share; it has market-leading position
in over 50 countries and operations in around 180
countries.
 BAT is the only international tobacco group with a
significant interest in tobacco leaf growing, working
with thousands of farmers internationally.

5. British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) was
established in 1998. They are a leading business
organization in the industrial sector employing more than
1,300 employees directly and a further 40,000 indirectly
as farmers, distributors and suppliers.
BATB has its headquarter in Dhaka with a tobacco leaf
processing operation in kushtia. The first factory was set
up in Fauzdarhat area of Chittagong in 1954. The second
factory was set up in 1965 in Dhaka.
Currently, BATB has two factories in Bangladesh. The
Cigarette Manufacturing Factory is located on the same
premises as the Head Office in Mohakhali, Dhaka. The
Green Leaf Threshing Plant (GLTP) is situated in
Kushtia.

6. • Human Resource Development is the integrated
use of training, organization, and career development
efforts to improve individual, group and
organizational effectiveness. It develops the key
competencies that enable individuals in organizations
to perform current and future jobs through planned
learning activities.
• BAT ensures HRD in certain areas like talent and
organizational development, learning and
development, reward, HR marketing and HR
operations.
Human Resource Development in BAT

7. HR helps in planning, implementing, recruitment and
selection, training, career and organizational
development.
BAT being a multinational enterprise it needs high-
skilled employees. HR is important to recruit better
deserving staffs.
HR is also required in performance evaluation of
employees.
It also helps to understand strength and weakness' of
employees.
Objectives of Human Resource

8. Human Resource Functions in BAT

9. • The major functional areas in human resource
management are:
• Planning
• Staffing
• Employee development
• Employee maintenance.
Basic HR Functions

10. Planning
In planning BAT goes with three key
elements-
Forecasting Staffing Needs
Evaluating Supply
Balance Supply and Demand
StaffingStaffing
Nature of Staffing Functions that
BAT follows:
Staffing is performed by all
managers.
They prefer cv’s they get from
web as well as from different
competitions they arrange like
“battle of minds”.

11. Employee Maintenance
• Orientation Program
• Induction Program
• Nice Environment
Training and DevelopmentTraining and Development
• Training Modules
• Provide Training Centre

12. Recruitment & Selection
Performance Appraisal
Compensation
Rewards and Benefits
Discipline
BAT’s HR practices

14. • Recruitment is a process of attracting
individual on a timely basis in sufficient
numbers and with appropriate
qualifications and encouraging them to
apply for jobs within an organization.
• The recruitment process takes about a
month from beginning to the employment.
The process starts by the need of a
personnel following post, or manpower
required in a certain wing or department of
the project.
Recruitment Process

15. Recruitment Process in BAT

16. 1.Put out job
advertising
 Online application
Form. Candidates
download an
application form and
fill in the necessary
details for the primary
requirements of the
job.(age, name etc)
British American
Tobacco Bangladesh
has been in e-
resourcing since 2002.
2. Filter application
forms
Filtering the
candidates to be called
for interview takes
about 7 days to
evaluate. In this
process, the
applications both
online and via mail are
evaluated on the basis
of accordance with the
requirements of the
certain post.
3.Preliminary
Interview
 After the application
is successful,
Candidate will be
invited to a
preliminary interview
which will be taken by
a member from the
function to which you
have applied and a
member of the Human
Resource team.
Recruitment Process in BAT

17. Continued…
4. Short listing
Second filtrations of candidates
take place. The candidates
receiving the board’s attention
is short-listed for the second
date of final interview. After
the preliminary interview
session, the qualified
candidates are short listed
again from the assessment
centre.
5. Selecting
After overall process on the
interview board is evaluated in the
assessment centre and rated by
the board of members. To identify
their knowledge and skills by
using various techniques were
used such as:
Employment test
Assessing candidate through
interview
 Physical ability test

18. Selection Process in
BAT

19. Selection Process in BAT

20. Assessment Centre
The candidates who selected in
the preliminary interview are
invited to a specifically
designed British American
Tobacco assessment centre.
This provides them with the
opportunity to demonstrate
their skills and performance.
Various Test
BAT follows some selection
evaluation test in the assessment
centre to select the best candidate,
the techniques are:
Employment test
Assessing candidate through
interview
Physical ability test
Selection Process in BAT

21. Employment Test
BAT follows the
Psychometric testing
for employees. This is
a test measures
candidates :
Analytical ability
Computation
ability
Verbal skill
Written skill
Assessing candidate
through interview
Mainly three steps are
followed in the selection
procedure.
First Phase: Handle
ability is measured.
Second Phase:
Individual skill is
measured
Third Phase: Measure
the passion and the
thrill in the employees
to join BAT
Physical ability test
• The physical test is
administered by
Medinova Dhaka to
measure the HIV,
Hepatitis B, C or such
many diseases in its
applicant’s health and
fitness for job effort.
Various Test in Assessment Centre

22. Finally the Last Step…..
Final
Interview
Hired

23. Recruitment Sources in BAT

24. Internal Recruitment Sources Of BAT

25. 1. Can create
organizational inbreeding,
candidates may have a
limited perspective.
2. May cause
political infighting
for promotions.
3. Places heavy
burden on training
and development.
Disadvantages1. Rewards good
works of current
employee.
2. Can asses
easily as known
the past records.
3. Improve
morale
4. Its cost-
effective
5. Can result in
succession of
promotions.
Advantages
Pros & Cons of Internal Recruitment at
BAT

26. External Recruitment Sources of BAT

27. Pros & Cons of External Recruitment at
BAT
Bringing new ideas and talent
into the organizations get
needed competencies.
Help company to get
needed competencies.
Provide cross-industry
insight.
Helps company to meet
equal employment
opportunity
Advantages
May result in
misplacement
Increases
recruitment costs
May cause morale
problems for the
internal
candidates.
Need longer
adjustment time
as well.
Disadvantages