Recruitment History which describe about the recruitment. this presentation is prepared by Big ideas HR consulting Pvt Ltd.

1. History Of Recruitment

2. What is Recruitment?
 Recruitment is a process of searching the candidates
for employment and stimulation them to apply for jobs
in the organization. it is the activity that links the client
and the candidates(Job seekers).
 Recruitment is thus a process of attracting, selecting
and placing the right candidate for the right job at the
given time and economy

3. The Old- Age (the days of
emperors)
 When a baby born, he/she was believed to be the
soldier and was taught the arts of war to join the army.
this was said to be ' Self Recruitment'
 Later, there were protests against the emperors for
farms/fields and for the right to sell goods directly to
the public for a better price. as they progressed,
entrepreneurs started recruiting the labour.

4. Industrial Revolutions(1760-
1840)
 With the rapid increase of industries across nationals was the
need for more manpower the working conditions were uncertain
like- child labour, less wages, poor-living conditions and long
working hours.
 Workers started forming unions to protest against this conditions
and better wage and benefits.
 This had led many small & mid-sized agencies to scale-up and
look at recruitment as the future. agencies advertised jobs
through bulletin board, newspapers, announcements & flyers in
public places, theatres, town halls.

5. Pre & post World Wars
 Companies and the government approached the
agencies to recruit manpower.
 Agencies began to advertise for members of society
who were not called into military service.
 Once the war ended, the agencies remained with the
purpose of finding the returning war veterans (with
their new skills) a job.
 Distributing the CV/resume (self-written, hire type-
writers, take the help of agencies) was the new job
searching avenue during this time. Agencies had
ownership of candidates CVs’ written by them.

6. Birth of Public Agencies
 First proposal to establish a public agency
("Office of Addresses and Encounters") was in
1650 by Henry Robinson which was rejected by
The British Parliament.
 Since the beginning of the 20th century, every
developed country has created a public
recruitment agency as a way to combat
unemployment and help people find work.

7. Birth of Private agencies
 The first private recruitment agency ‘Engineering
Agency’ in the USA was formed by ‘Fred Winslow’ in
1893.
 It later became part of General Employment
Enterprises who also owned Businessmen's Clearing
House (est. 1902).
 In 1906, Katharine Felton had started a recruitment
agency as a response to the problems brought on by
the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

8. Regulation of the Recruitment
Agencies
 In 1919, International Labour Organization of US
recommended for the abolition of fee-charging
agencies.
 After 14 years of discussions by the government and
agency unions about this convention a bill was
passed in 1933 that resulted in abolition of for-profit
agencies if the agencies were not licensed and a fee
scale was not agreed in advance.

9. The Internet age – Today
 Though Internet/www was launched in 1982,
Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) began
to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s; fully
commercialized in the U.S. by 1995.
 The first job portal was launched in 1994 by Monster
followed by Netstart which is now CareerBuilder.
 In 2000s, Web 1.0 and its sequel Web 2.0 have highly
influenced recruitment industry by letting recruiters
leverage Social Media.