MBA HR

Human Resource Management

4. Recruitment and Selection

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Recent Scenarios in Hiring

 When Recruitment do not happen

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stures/84607880

Skill v/s Experience – The Hiring Dilemma

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rience-the-hiring-dilemma/84584765

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4.1 The Hiring Process

• The process of • The process of making

generating a pool of a ‘hire’ or ‘no hire’
Recruitment Selection
qualified candidates decision regarding
for a particular job each applicant for a job

Socialization

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4.3 Windolf’s Typology of Recruitment Strategies

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4.2 Importance of hiring process

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ts-new-company-intrinsic/84703655

What role Recruitment and Selection play in this scenario?

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4.3 Challenges of Recruitment Process

 Effect on Performance and Turnover

 Determining Characteristics Important to Performance
 Measuring those characteristics
 Evaluating Employees motivation levels
 Deciding who should make the selection decision

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4.4 Sources of Recruitment

 Current Employers
 Referrals
 Former Employees
 Customers
 Print and Radio advertisements
 Internet, career sites and social media
 Employment Agencies
 Temporary workers
 College recruiting

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4.5 Planning the Recruitment – Yield Ratio

 Class Exercise – Yield Ratio

 Class Exercise – Job Advertisements

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4.6 Selection – Reliability and Validity

 Reliability – Consistency of measurement , usually across time but also across

judges

 Validity – The extent to which the techniques measures the intended

knowledge, skill or ability. In the selection context, it is the extent to which
scores on a test or interview correspond to actual job interview.

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4.7 Selection Tools
 Letter of Recommendation
 Application Forms
 Ability Tests
 Personality Tests
 Interviews
 Assessment Centers
 Drug Test
 Reference Checks
 Background Checks
 Handwriting Analysis

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4.8 Improving effectiveness of hiring process

 Agile methods
 Clear Understanding
 Relevant test
 Modern technology
 Skill Mapping

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Supporting Reading Materials

 How to design a better hiring process – HBR Article provided in drive

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