Importance of Recruitment

• Provides organization with a pool of

qualified candidates
• The more qualified the pool the better
the success rate in selection
• Can help the organization meet
affirmative action goals
• Can increase organizational
effectiveness
 Internal Sources and
Methods
• Sources
– Promotion from within
– Transfer
– Job rotation
– Rehires and recall
• Methods
– Job posting
– Skills inventory
 External Sources
• Employee referrals
• Walk-ins
• Employment agencies
• Other companies
• Temporary help
• Trade associations & unions
• Schools
• Hiring fairs
• Aliens
 External methods
• Radio & TV
• Newspapers and trade journals
• Computerized services
 Increasing the Pool
• Conveying the information
– Job interview
• The usual interview
• The realistic interview
– Job matching
– Early entry: High school programs
 Increasing the Pool, Cont.
• Expanding Job opportunities
– Examine entry position qualifications
– Provide training, career paths, mentoring
• Alternative work arrangement
– Flextime
– Compressed work week
– Telecommuting
– Job sharing
 Increasing the Pool, Cont.
• Security
– Core of full time employees
– Mantle of free lancers, contract workers,
temps, and part-timers
 Job Search from the
Applicant’s Perspective
• Sources
– Referrals
– Direct application
– Advertisements
– Employment agencies
 Job Search, cont.
• Intensity of search
– financial need
– self-esteem
– training
• Evaluation of choices
– Occupational choice
– Organizational choice
 Employee Socialization
• Pre-entry
• Entry
• Orientation & mentoring
 Issues
• Work force diversity
• Evaluation of recruitment process
• Contract recruiting
• Rejection
• International comparisons
 Backwards & Forwards
• Summing up: We’ve considered the
importance of recruitment to the
organization, internal & external sources
for recruiting, ways to increase the pool of
qualified applicant job searching, and
some current issues.
• Looking ahead: Next time we begin
examining staffing & selection