Recruitment

Recruitment refers to the overall process of attracting, selecting and appointing suitable
candidates for jobs within an organization, either permanent or temporary. Recruitment can also
refer to processes involved in choosing individuals for unpaid positions, such as voluntary roles
or training programmes.
Recruitment may be undertaken in-house by managers, human resource generalists and/or
recruitment specialists. Alternatively, parts of the process may be undertaken by public-sector
employment agencies, commercial recruitment agencies, or specialist search consultancies.
The process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate (from within or outside of
an organization) for a job opening, in a timely and cost effective manner. The recruitment
process includes analyzing the requirements of a job, attracting employees to that
job, screening and selecting applicants, hiring, and integrating the new employee to the
organization.
Purposes Of Recruitment

Determine the present and future requirements of the organization in conjunction with the
personnel planning and job analysis activities.
Increase the pool of job candidates with minimum cost.
Help increase the success rate of the selection process by reducing the number of under
qualified or overqualified job applicants.
Help reduce the probability that job applicants, once recruited and selected, will leave the
organization only after a short period of time.
Meet the organization's legal and social obligations regarding the composition of its
workforce.
Start identifying and preparing potential job applicants who will be appropriate candidates.
Increase organizational and individual effectiveness in the short and long term.
Evaluate the effectiveness of various recruiting techniques and sources for all types of job
applicants.

DEFINITION OF SELECTION
Selection is the process of collecting and evaluating information about an individual in order to
extend an offer of employment. Such employment could be either a first position for a new
employee or a different position for a current employee. The selection process is performed
under legal and environmental constraints and addresses the future interests of the organization
and of the individual.