Recruiting and hiring

Advertise a job, Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks, right to work checks, discrimination law and apprenticeships

Recruiting and hiring people

• Employ someone: step by step
• Get ready to employ someone for the first time: step by step
• Advertise a job
• Using a recruitment agency to find staff
• Jobcentre Plus help for recruiters
• Recruitment and disabled people
• Offer work to people who have come to the UK from Ukraine
• Employing people who are carers: advice and training

Checking a person's right to work

• Checks employers can make on job applicants
• Check a job applicant's right to work: use their share code
• Check if a document allows someone to work in the UK
• Check security staff have a licence to work
• Use the Employer Checking Service
• Penalties for employing illegal workers

Criminal record checks

• Check someone's criminal record as an employer
• Find out which DBS check is right for your employee
• Find a DBS umbrella body company
• DBS Update Service

Sponsorship and visas

• Apply for a sponsor licence
• UK visa sponsorship management system

Responsibilities and regulations

• The National Minimum Wage and Living Wage
• National Minimum Wage and Living Wage: accommodation
• Employers: preventing discrimination
• Employers' responsibilities: equality monitoring
• Report someone as unfit to work with children or vulnerable adults
• Employers' liability insurance
• Record keeping for employment agencies and businesses

Support for employees with disabilities

• Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition
• Reasonable adjustments for workers with disabilities or health conditions

Apprenticeships and internships

• Employing an apprentice
• Find an assessor for your apprentice
• Employment rights and pay for interns

Employing children

• Child employment
• Apply for a child performance licence
• Become a licensed chaperone for child performers

Business support

• Get help and support for your business