# Recruitment & selection

**Choosing and keeping good employees is key to keeping your organisation running well. We've put together some guides to help you understand what you to do when you're recruiting new staff, what rights your employees have and how to understand the legal status of your employee.**

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## Guide to employment status

In this guide you'll find information on the difference between workers, employees, contractors and self-employed workers.





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## Guide to hiring fairly

Use this information to make sure that you're treating all potential employees fairly and that your policies and procedures don't intentionally or unintentionally discriminate against your applicants.





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## Guide to pre-employment checks

Find out what you need to do and what you can do before you offer someone a role. This includes information around checking qualifications and references.





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## Guide to statutory rights of employees

This information outlines the rights that all employees have access to and which you must take steps to protect. This includes guidance on leave, flexible working, redundancy and dismissal.





](/support/hr/recruitment-selection/guide-to-statutory-employment-rights)

## Exclusive content

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## Guide to developing and advertising a job







](/support/hr/recruitment-selection/guide-to-developing-and-advertising-a-job)

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## Guide to interviewing and selection







](/support/hr/recruitment-selection/guide-to-interviewing-and-selection)

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## Guide to conducting remote interviews







](/support/hr/recruitment-selection/guide-to-conducting-remote-interviewing)

This content is only available to HR Service subscribers or organisations in SCVO membership. **[Find out more](/services/hr)**

## Templates, model policies & checklists

No templates are available for you to access

Organisations in SCVO membership have access to 2 further exclusive templates in this section.

Please **[sign up](#scvo-account-modal-sign-up)** for a My SCVO account or **[sign in](#scvo-account-modal-sign-in)** to access this exclusive content.

Not an SCVO member? [Find out more about SCVO membership](/membership)

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## About SCVO

SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations) is the national membership organisation for Scotland's voluntary sector.

Our role is to champion the role of voluntary organisations in Scotland and to support them to do work that has a positive impact.

SCVO supports members and the wider voluntary sector with all aspects of setting up and running a voluntary organisation. SCVO represents the needs and concerns of the voluntary sector to the Scottish government in Holyrood and UK government and Westminster. Through our learning and events programme SCVO offers training and development opportunities to the sector.

Members access an extensive membership benefits package including specialist, in-depth, 1-to-1 guidance from our Information Services team and from professional service partners.

Access to exclusive membership networks (including comms, employers, governance and policy) supports members to grow their connections, stay up to date, exchange ideas and views with peers, and learn through tailored learning opportunities.

SCVO members enjoy free access to Funding Scotland Premium to stay on top of funding opportunities to support their organisation’s financial resilience.

Discounts and savings on SCVO products and services (including our HR service, managed IT support, payroll service and events and training) and partner offers provide members with support to allow them to focus on delivering their organisation’s goals. Further SCVO products and services include [extensive digital support](https://scvo.scot/support/digital), a climate action resource [Growing Climate Confidence](https://climateconfident.scot), a voluntary sector publication [Third Force News](https://tfn.scot) and a voluntary sector jobs and recruitment service [Goodmoves](https://goodmoves.org).

For more information on SCVO membership, visit [SCVO membership](https://scvo.scot/membership)