Recruitment and Selection process today

Recruitment and Selection Process today

Recruitment is a process of finding suitable employees and motivating them to apply for jobs in the organization. Selection can be defined as the process by which the organization chooses from among the applicants. As a result of rapidly changing business environment, organizations have to respond as soon as possible to the requirements for people. Because of that, it is very important to have conclusive recruitment process and a policy in place, which can be implemented effectively to get the best fits for the vacant positions. Rejecting the right candidate or selecting the wrong candidate could turn out be costly mistakes for the organization. (Karthi et al, 2015)

Amstrong (2009) stated that recruitment is the process of finding and engaging the people to the organization needs and Selection is that part of the recruitment process concerned with deciding which applicants should be appointed to job.

      Successful recruitment associate with different processes, Improvement of a policy on recruitment and retention and the system that give life to the policy. Job evaluation and analysis is very important to identify the individual aspects of each job and calculate the relative worth of them.  Identification of responsibilities, knowledge, experience, abilities, required skills and potential human resource pool within the organization and outside the organization is the part of successful recruitment process. It is very important to Assessment of qualification profiles according to the job descriptions. McQuerrey (2018) stated that, when organizations want to hire the employees, they expect the people who bring the greatest skill sets to the organization.

Internal recruitment

It is a process of an identification the right in house talented person to fill an open position, which has both pros and cons. internal hiring encourages the development of specialized knowledge and skills because workers anticipate long careers with the firm. But internal hiring restricts the size of the applicant pool.

External recruitment

External Recruitment is a process of hiring employees from the outside. It can also reduce the potential for in-fighting. External recruitment also has advantages. It brings fresh ideas to an organization.

Gusdorf (2008) argued that there is no best or specific method to recruiting people to an organization. Most organizations use various kind of methods, depending on the nature of the job to be filled, the time needed to properly fill the position and the size of their recruiting budget.

References

Armstrong, M. (2009). Armstrong's hand book of Human Resource Management Practice. 10 th edition ed. United Kindon: Kogan Page Limited.

Gusdorf, M. (2008). Recruitment and Selection Hiring the Right Person. Society for Human Resource Management, Volume 2(1), pp. 6-15.

Karthi, Balaishwarya & Karthiga, (2015). Recruitment and Selection Process. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 5( Issue 4).

McQuerrey, L. (2018). Difference Between the Internal & External Recruitment Strategies. Hunthman,Earning lives through innovation.