Background
Perth Convention Centre is WA's largest and only purpose-built convention, exhibition and meeting centre. This multi-million dollar Convention Centre includes facilities such as six exhibition pavilions, a 2,500-seat tiered auditorium, 19 specialist meeting rooms, and also grand ballrooms with spectacular views of Perth's sparkling Swan River (Perth Convention Exhibition Centre 2005). Spotless, a service provider company, signed a contract with the Convention Centre "to mobilise construction (with builder, Multiplex), market the various conference and exhibition facilities and provide ongoing management services for the entire centre" (?It's set to be Perth's Centre of Excellence' 2004).
Introduction
As the Perth Convention Centre has already conferences and exhibitions worth of $100 million booked through 2010 and expected to inject $2.2 billion into the WA economy, indeed the organisation would need a reliable and outstanding human resource to promote this new icon in Western Australia (?It's set to be Perth's Centre of Excellence' 2004). The recent job vacancy of the position Banquet Sales Manager for the Convention Centre shows the vitality of the recruitment and selection process for this position in turn for the organisation to achieve its ultimate goal (Appendix 1). This assignment will cover the analysis of what approach to be used to ensure that a large number of appropriately qualified external applicants apply for this position and why; and also what approach to be used to identify the best candidate from among these external applicants and why.
Job analysis
Job analysis is basically "a systematic way to gather and analyse information about the content, context, and human requirements of jobs" (Mathis & Jack ...