RECRUITMENT AND

SELECTION

BY
Seema Jamali
 RECRUITMENT
 The process of attracting and choosing candidates for employment.

 Recruitment can be defined as searching for and obtaining a pool of potential candidates
with the desired knowledge, skills and experience to allow an organization to select the
most appropriate people to fill job vacancies against defined position descriptions and
specifications.

 The purpose of the recruitment process is to find the widest pool of applicants, to
provide the greatest opportunity, to select the best people for the required roles in an
organization.

 Acquiring the best applicants for a role can be a competitive advantage for an
organization whereas ineffective recruitment and selection can result in enormous
disruption, reduced productivity, interpersonal difficulties and interruptions to operations
customer service and long term costs.
RECRUITMENT

 Recruitment is the process of identifying that the organization needs to

employ someone up to the point at which application forms for the post have
arrived at the organization.

 Recruitment is the process whereby a firm attracts or finds capable

individuals to apply for employment. Of course, the objective is to find these
applicants at the lowest possible cost.
RECRUITMENT

 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.
 Recruitment is the process of finding and hiring suitable candidates ( from
within internal or external of an organization ) to fill the positions. The process
involves searching, sourcing and selecting right candidates for the roles to the
organization.
Need Of Recruitment

 Vacancies are created due to:

 Transfer
 Promotion
 Death
 Termination
 Retirement
What are the different sources of
recruitment?

The different sources of Recruitment are classified into

two categories.
1) Internal Sources
2) External Sources
What is Internal Sources?

This involves recruiting candidates within an organization

to fill the vacancy. Unlike external sources, companies fill
the positions through references of internal employees or
current employees promotions to higher positions.
Methods of Internal Recruitment

 1. Internal Advertisements ( emails, newsletters, forms )

 2. Word of Mouth
 3. Promotions
 4. Internal Employee Referrals
 5. Retired Employees for temporary or contract positions.
 6. Present temporary/contract employees to permanent positions
 7. Former employees for part time/freelancer/work at home.
Advantages of Internal Recruitment

 1. No cost and less time consuming

 2. No need of training
 3. Builds strong relationship with employees.
 4. Motivates others of hard work to get high positions.
 5. Easy to pick best talents within an organization very quickly
 6. Long stay with the company when promoted to high position.
Disadvantages of Internal
Recruitment

 1. The positions of the persons who is promoted will be vacant.

 2. There may be partiality in promoting employees.
 3. No new opportunities for external candidates.
 4. Dissatisfied employees may quit if his co-worker is promoted
to high positions
What is External Sources?

This involves recruiting a candidate through references, networks,

job portals or they may approach recruitment agencies. In order to
compete with other companies & increase their standard,
employers hunt for best talents working for other top companies
Methods of External Recruitment

 1. Job Portals
 2. Internal and External Employee Referrals
 3. Recruitment/Headhunting agencies
 4. Job ads on Newspapers/Websites
 5. Campus Recruitment
 6. Walk In
Advantages of External
Recruitment

 1. Create new opportunities for external employees.

 2. Best candidates can be placed for the roles
 3. Increase in the selection ratio.
 4. There are less chances of partiality
 5. Uniqueness in employees worked for different companies can
take the current company to extra mile
 6. Able to recruit the skills it needs.
Disadvantages of External
Recruitment

 1. Cost to hire is high.

 2. External process is more time consuming as compared to
internal process.
 3. Sourcing quality candidates becomes difficult for the
companies.
 4. Internal recruiters lack headhunting skills ( Less references &
networks ). They may have to approach Recruitment agencies to
hire the people.