Recruitment and selection
Recruitment
and Selection
The recruitment and selection process is one
of the most important aspects of running and managing new and established businesses.
The right employees can take the business to new heights. The wrong ones can
hurt business by missing sales, wrong sales and turning customers off and
creating a toxic workplace environment. Further the HR protocols start from
this end. (Mackay, 2016)
What is recruitment and selection process?
As per the Armstrong Recruitment is the
process of finding and engaging the people the organization needs. Selection is
that part of the recruitment process concerned with deciding which applicants
or candidates should be appointed to jobs. Further the recruitment and
selection have few steps in process which has been conducted and practiced in
many organizations. The stages of recruitment and selection are:
1. Defining
requirements.
2.
Attracting candidates.
3.
Sifting applications.
4.
Interviewing.
5.
Testing.
6.
Assessing candidates.
7.
Obtaining references.
8.
Checking applications.
9.
Offering employment.
10. Following
up.
Each and every step of this process is important to an organization, recruitment is a costly activity to the organization, hence these steps were taken with much more attention and concern, the recruitment process starts with the vacant of a position or a creation of a new designation.
Defining requirements - The main objective of
this step is to define the role of this designation, HR will evaluate and list
down the knowledge that the applicant require to play this role with the skill
and abilities. Further the educational and technical knowledge needed to work
in this role, also the experience capacity in the same field will be considered
for more specification.
Attracting candidates - The organizations
follow many steps to attract the candidates, main the brand building and promoting,
as per the collingwoodsearch.co the organizations promote its brand by its own
intranet, internet and by its own web side, social media also being used to
promote the organizations brand, candidates refer these articles / videos to
get more ideas about the organization to evaluate the applied working place
comfortably. (Boyatzis, 1982)
References
Armstrong, M., 2009. Armstrong's Hand of Human Resource Management Practice. Philadelphia: Kogan Page.
Boyatzis, R (1982) The Competent Manager, New York, Wiley.
Mackay, D., 2016. 5 top tips for attracting candidates. Passle. Available at: https://thoughtleadership.collingwoodsearch.co.uk/post/102dlgh/5-top-tips-for-attracting-candidates?news [Accessed November 6, 2021].
Recruitment of right candidates to the right employment is always a challenge. Whereas if HR manager could thrive the process of selection, may leads to success recruitment further. Important topic to be discussed. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI can say this process is at the heart of HRM and for the company to have an effective and sustainable workforce right selection and requirements are essential. Simply but deeply you have explained the process. Good, thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteRecruiting is the main path to get success for every organization, you have explained it very clear
ReplyDeleteRecruiting the right people carries supreme importance for the continuation of the success of an organization. Which is why we’ve rounded up a list of reasons that will further convince you to establish a recruitment and selection policy for your organization.
ReplyDeleteMore recruiters trying to find more experience people. In this aria we should have system of filtering and developing system for freshers to the workforce. Every expert has started as beginner.
ReplyDeleteUntil we change the process of developing people we are blind somewhere.