SOURCING
SRINIVAS VUPPALA
SOURCING
Sourcing is a process of talent acquisition discipline for short listing qualified
and engagement of skilled candidates for job orders through various
methods within the recruitment process, a function through outsourcing are
called sources.
Multi national companies and firms employ teams of sourcing professionals
that concentrate only on the initial pool of candidates.
Sources then hand off the candidates to a different department of team of
recruiters which handle qualification, interview, and placement.
TYPE OF SOURCING
Employee References
Internal Job Posting
Campus recruitment
Advertised recruitment
Walk-in interview
Job fair
Head-hunting
Job portal
Social media
ADVERTISED RECRUITMENT
Recruitment advertising is a public business communication
used to attract applicants.
Recruitment advertising channels:
Newspapers
Specialist and Professional Publications
Internal Organisational Publications
Online Advertising
Job Centers
Newspapers
Companies have the contract with leading newspapers to
publish the job advertisement.
Leading Newspapers:
The Wall Street Journal (USA)
The New York Times (USA)
The Washington Post (USA)
The Guardian (UK)
The Hindu (INDIA)
Times of India (INDIA)
NRI Times (INDIA)
China Daily (China)
The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
The Asahi Shimbun(Japan)
Newspapers
Recruiting companies advertise the job notification at regular intervals
Companies design a uniform layout with various key elements:
Description of the company, including the Employer Brand
Job title and location
Description of the position
Entry qualifications
Remuneration package
Specialist and professional publications
Adverts in trade journals to hire the candidates from specific or
specialist industries or functions
E.g. Engineering, the Civil Service and HR professionals.
Trade journals publish on weekly, monthly and quarterly.
Pros of advertising in a specialist publication
Tapping into a network, to interact members or subscribers of the
publication for events and job vacancies.
Internal organisational publications
Companies recruit internally, either before or at the same time as
advertising externally.
Intranet, corporate magazine, noticeboards, etc.
The cost-effective, and recruiters have a complete knowledge of the
candidate.
The response is likely to be limited to small numbers of applications.
Companies requires a wider range of qualifications or experience
than is in the existing talent pool, they may decide not to recruit
internally.
Job Centers
Job centres are the place to advertise vacancies and also provide advice
and support with recruitment planning activities.
Job centres have a national reach and used extensively by a number of
key industries
Transport, IT, Retail, construction, manufacturing and security.
Job centres are free to use and established as a recognised source of jobs
for those currently out of work.
Job centres are unlikely to provide specialist candidates, and individuals.
References
LCRA
CiteHR
Google
Lets begin to source the right candidate!