P/HR/64. Discuss the importance of job analysis in personnel recruitment and selection.

This essay identifies the difference between the recruitment and selection of personnel, addresses whether the importance of job analysis varies whether used in recruitment or selection, analyses the role and methods of traditional job analysis and then comment on its development in modern workplaces where it is being used under other guises such as 'competencies' to a positive effect and analyses criticisms of the job analysis approach and assesses whether these cast doubt on the importance of job analysis.