Recruitment and Selection blog -2


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 starts from this end,

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 organization.

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.
(Armstrong, 2009).

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,

1 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, (Armstrong, 2009). 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.

2 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,

Armstrong, M., 2009. Armstrong's Hand of Human Resource Management Practice. Philadelphia: Kogan Page.
Boyatzis, R (1982) The Competent Manager, New York, Wiley Competency and Emotional Intelligence (2006/7) Raising Performance Through Competencies: The annual benchmarking survey, London, Competency and Emotional Intelligence
https://www.collingwoodsearch.co.uk/our-insights/recruiting-retaining-talent/5-top-tips-for-attracting-candidates/ @ 10.05.2018 at 10.31 PM

Comments

  1. UnknownJune 13, 2018 at 4:37 AM

    Good essay overall, the steps of the recruitment process has been addressed. Its importance has been considered. However should have addressed the changing technology side, a few examples and more referencing would have been good.

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  2. SachithraJune 14, 2018 at 6:38 AM

    Nice essay with lot of information about recruitment and selection. Good referencing. Keep continuing!

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  3. UnknownJuly 5, 2018 at 9:51 AM

    As doctor said overall good article nice good fact in order

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  4. AnonymousJuly 5, 2018 at 10:22 AM

    nicely done faisal, good job

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  5. Subash WijerathneJuly 5, 2018 at 10:50 PM

    Good structure & flow. Well done.

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