Diversity At Tesco

Tesco believes in diversity. Tesco shows this by employing people irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion or ethnic origin and by offering flexible working condition (Everyone is Welcome, 2009).

Tesco’s employees profile as of 2014: Figure 2 Tesco's employees profile (Average Salary for Tesco Plc Employees, 2014)

Tesco hires employees via internal and external recruitment. Tesco will first look at its Internal Talent Plan to fill a vacancy. For external recruitment, Tesco advertises vacancies online. Such vacancies are:

 Customer Assistants (in stores and distribution centres)

Tesco advises future employee to visit the store or centre in person and talk with the people there. Application can also be submitted online. If

Tesco will then invite successful candidates to do an interview of to attend an assessment centre (Tesco Careers, 2009).

 Pharmacists

Application submitted online will be screened by the pharmacy recruitment team and, if successful, will be forwarded to the relevant Regional Pharmacy Manager. The Regional Pharmacy Manager will conduct an informal telephone interview followed by a detailed structured interview in person (Our Recruitment Process, 2009).

For its employees, Tesco offers four development programmes (Training and Development, 2009):

 Apprenticeship

The apprenticeship at Tesco starts every September in selected stores and lasts for 12 months. It is made up of three parts : key skills, national vocational qualification and technical certificate.

 Options Development Programme

Options is a training and development programme for people with the potential to do a bigger or different job. It is a flexible programme adapted to employee’s personal needs and aims to develop a combination of leadership, general and operating skills.

 TWIST (Tesco Week In Store