Taking on staff

Check what you need to do to employ someone to work for you.

Consider why you need more staff and how you can recruit the ones that best meet your needs.

How online recruitment differs from traditional hiring practices, the advantages of virtual recruitment, and how to get the most from recruiting new staff using digital processes.

Guidance on how Northern Ireland employers can advertise their job vacancies and approach interviews when recruiting staff.

Helping employers follow practical steps to smoothly interview and assess job applicants to appoint the right candidate.

Deciding who to offer a job to, offering them the job, and taking them through an induction process.

When you need to register with HM Revenue & Customs, how to do so, and when you don't need to register.

Guidance for employers on what you need to do when hiring workers from outside the UK including sponsor licences.

Best practice guidance for employers recruiting people with NI conflict-related convictions that took place before the Belfast Agreement/Good Friday Agreement 1998.

How employers can support migrant workers in their business.

Discover how using contractors and subcontractors for short-term work or specialised skills can benefit your business.

Meet your legal obligations to fixed-term employees by understanding employment rules.

Understand employment status and how to check the status of different workers, employees, contractors, and directors.

Promote and advertise your apprenticeship opportunities through JobApplyNI.

Information to help employers meet the UK’s points-based immigration system.

You’ll usually need a sponsor licence to employ someone to work for you from outside the UK

Guidance for employers of frontier workers who want to continue working in the UK or who wish to begin employment in the UK.

Visa allowing workers to come to the UK to do an eligible skilled job with an approved employer.

Visa allowing workers to come to the UK to do an eligible job for a fast-growing business.