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

Guidance on how Northern Ireland employers can advertise their job vacancy and approach the interview process

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

Checks you must make to ensure new employees are entitled to work in the UK, how to identify their employment status and getting started with PAYE and payroll

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 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 and school work experience opportunities through Connect to Success, DfE's online system

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

Information to help employers prepare for the UK’s new 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

The Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme enables a limited number of workers to travel to the UK to pick and package fruit and vegetables