Recruitment of employees

Recruitment of Employees 


Recruitment of employees is a key function in Human Resource Management of a company which plays a very significant role in any organization. At the same time recruitment and selection have image problem. First this function is often viewed as "old “ingrained HRM domains. It seems like the traditional recruitment and selection procedures have been around for decades which is at odds with the ever changing internal and external environments of organizations. Hence practitioners often wonder whether there are any new research based ways for recruiting and selecting personal.

Armstrong (2014)has defined Recruitment as the process of finding and engaging the people the organization needs.

Throughout the end of the twentieth century and into the start of the twenty-first, scholars and practitioners have argued that firms are in a war for talent, and that the firms that are best able to attract and retain employees will be in a position to outperform their rivals (Michaels et al., 2001; Woodruffe, 1999) In a global economy, companies are looking for new growth opportunities and hiring new staff at a pace to help them achieve this growth. At the same time, labor markets are beginning to shrink as the baby boom generation employees begin to retire and are replaced by a reduced supply of younger workers (Dohm, 2000). In the midst of these Noteworthy environmental changes,  recruitment and selection, has emerged as arguably the most critical human resource function for organizational survival and success.

Firms across a wide range of sectors and especially those in knowledge-based industries (financial services, high technology, pharmaceuticals) are engaged in fierce and continuing battles with their competitive organizations for the recruitment of the best and brightest new hires. 

Recruitment process

A recruitment process is an organization-specific model of candidate sourcing for the purpose of finding and hiring new employees. Typically, the ownership of the recruitment process resides within the Human Resources function, although companies also use third-party recruiting firms. Ownership can vary depending upon the specific organizational structure of the company carrying out the process.

The recruitment and selection process

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.

References

Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice, 13th edition, 2014

Michaels, E., Handfield-Jones, H., & Axelrod, B. 2001. Tlie War for Talent. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. 

Dohm, A. 2000. Gauging the labor force effects of retiring baby boomers. Monthly Labor Report, 123(7), 

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