Filling a vacant or newly created position with the most suitable person possible is a task that should not be underestimated. The basic aim is to recruit the most suitable personnel for the team. Personnel selection procedures must be fair and transparent and meet the requirements of gender equality and diversity. A number of formal procedural rules must therefore be observed when filling vacancies in the public sector to ensure that these requirements are met.

In addition to the necessary professional qualifications, prospective employees must demonstrate communicative, social, personal and, where applicable, strategic and conceptual skills. Their attributes should be ascertained as far as possible during the selection process.

Effective and properly designed personnel selection procedures are time-consuming. They take time to prepare and implement and must be well planned. The PEOE department will advise and support you if required in all steps of the process, arrange external support if necessary and moderate the selection interviews in individual cases.

The administration portal shows a diagram of the selection process and contains some supporting documents, including the recruitment policy and personnel selection guidelines.

Once a new employee has been successfully recruited, the guidelines for supervisors on inducting new employees will provide useful information.

A trusting and effective working relationship in a team is an important element both for managing everyday work and achieving goals in specific tasks and projects. Functioning teams are ideally a source of creativity, mutual support and motivation. The aim of team development training is to improve processes and structures and to record this, agree on tasks and responsibilities and improve internal and external communication. External moderation and supervision is recommended to resolve conflicts.

The PEOE department supervises and moderates future workshops and annual planning in teams upon request or provides experienced outside coaches. Please send an email to pe-oe.fuehrung@uol.de if you require this service.

When managers take on new tasks, are faced with key change processes, major projects or need support with essential prioritisation, external individual coaching over several hours may be helpful. They can discuss how to identify goals and find solutions. The PEOE department provides experienced coaches who work with issue-based and resource-oriented methods. Anyone interested should email pe-oe.fuehrung@uol.de.