RECRUITMENT, SELECTION

1. RECRUITMENT

2. Job of RECRUITER

3. Meaning
• Recruitment is the process of searching
prospective employees and
stimulating them to apply for job in the
organization.
• When more persons apply for jobs
then there will be scope of recruiting
better persons.
• It is the second step after Manpower
Planning.
• It prompts people to offer for selection
in an organization.

4. Definition
• “ Recruitment is the process of searching for
prospective employees and stimulating and
encouraging them to apply for jobs in the
organization”
-Flippo

5. Features
• It is a process rather than a single act or event.
• Linking activity as it brings together the employer
and the prospective employees.
• Positive activity to seek out eligible persons from
which suitable ones are selected.
• It involves locating the sources of people required
to meet job requirements.
• It involves ability to match jobs to suitable
candidates.
• A two way process between recruiter and
recruited.
• A complex job that involves lots of factors.

6. Types of Recruitment
Needs..
• Planned: Arises from changes in organization and
retirement policy.
• Unexpected: Arises during resignations, deaths,
accidents and illness.
• Anticipated: Refers to those movements in
personnel which an organization can predict by
studying trends in the internal and external
environments

7. Process
1. Identify Vacancies
2. Prepare Job Description and Job
Specification
3. Choosing a Source
4. Managing the response
5. Short listing
6. Arrange Interviews
7. Conducting Interviews and Decision
Making

8. Factors affecting Recruitment

9. Elements of Recruitment
process
• Recruitment Policy
• Recruitment style
• Developing sources of recruitment
• Methods of recruiting

10. Recruitment Policy
• Recruitment Policy specifies the objectives of
recruitment and provides a framework for the
implementation of recruitment program.
• It may cover several issues such as extent of
promotion from within, recruiting old
employees, minority groups friends and
relatives of present employees.

11. Pre-requisites of a good
policy
• It should be in conformity with general
personnel policies.
• Provide employees with job security and
continuous employment
• Integrate organizational needs and employee
needs.
• It should match qualities of employess with
the requirements of work.
• It should provide suitable jobs for
handicapped, women and minority groups.

12. Recruitment Style
• Recruitment Policies differ from organization
to organization. There can be:-
CENTRALISED
RECRUITMENT
DECENTRALISED
RECRUITMENT

13. Sources of Recruitment

14. Methods of Recruitment
• Direct Methods:- In this employee contacts,
manned exhibits and waiting lists are used.
• Indirect Methods:- It includes advertisement
in newspapers, journals on radio and
television are used to publicize vacancies.
• Third Party Methods:- When agencies are
used to recruit personnel e.g. Consulting
Agencies, Employment Exchanges.

15. Challenges in Recruitment
• Image of the Organization
• Unattractive Job
• Internal Policies of the Organization
• Budgetary Support
• Government Interference

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