Identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview and select applicants.
* Allocate human resources, ensuring appropriate matches between personnel.
* Provide current and prospective employees with information about policies, job duties, working conditions, wages, opportunities for promotion and employee benefits.
* Perform difficult staffing duties, including dealing with understaffing, refereeing disputes, firing employees, and administering disciplinary procedures.
* Analyze and modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements.
* Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.
* Serve as a link between management and employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related problems.
* Analyze training needs to design employee development, language training and health and safety programs.
* Maintain records and compile statistical reports concerning personnel-related data such as hires, transfers, performance appraisals, and absenteeism rates.

* Conduct exit interviews to identify reasons for employee termination.

* Prepare personnel forecast to project employment needs.