What is recruitment?
What is recruitment?
We can simply say recruitment is the process of identifying, attracting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and onboarding employees. In other words, it involves everything from the identification of a staffing need to filling it.
In large companies, they have separate departments or teams of recruiters while others only have a single recruiter, or the HR manager may be responsible for recruiting. In addition, some companies want to outsource their recruitments to specialized third-party companies.
Most companies use advertisements, job boards, social media sites, and specialized job sites for their recruitments. Below are the top 10 ranked job sites in 2021 (Polner, 2021).
👍 The 10 Best Job Search Websites of 2021
- Best Overall: Indeed (https://resumes.indeed.com/)
- Runner-Up, Best Overall: Monster (https://hiring.monster.com/order20/)
- Best for Employer Research: Glassdoor (https://www.glassdoor.com/)
- Best for Remote Jobs: FlexJobs (https://www.flexjobs.com/)
- Best for Experienced Managers: Ladders (https://www.theladders.com/)
- Best for Startup Jobs: AngelList (https://angel.co/)
- Best for Connecting Directly with Recruiters: LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/)
- Best for Up-to-Date Listings: Getwork (https://getwork.com/)
- Best for Recent College Graduates: Scouted (https://scouted.io/)
- Best for Hourly Workers: Snagajob (https://www.snagajob.com/)
👍 What does recruitment involve?
Below are the essential steps of the recruitment process.
👍 Types of recruitment
There are two types of recruitment in the organizations
1. Internal Recruitments
The recruitments take place within the organizations called “Internal recruitments”. There are three types of internal recruitments.
- Transfers
- Promotions
- Re-employment of ex-employees
2. External Recruitments
The recruitments take place outside the organizations called “External recruitments”. There are seven types of external recruitments.
- Employment at Factory Level (Unsolicited applicants)
- Advertisement
- Employment Exchanges (Mostly in government jobs)
- Employment Agencies
- Educational Institutions
- Recommendations
- Labor Contractors
Conclusion:
Recruitment in simple terms: identifying correct candidates and hiring them to fill open positions. However, effective recruiting has a bit of art with science. It needs to implement repeatable processes that will lead to reliable results, on the one hand. On the other hand, it requires sophistication to think outside the box to find your ideal candidate.
References:
Polner, E. (2021) Best Job Search Websites: The 10 Best Job Search Websites of 2021. [blog entry] 01 November 2021. The balance careers. Available from https://www.thebalancecareers.com/top-best-job-websites-2064080 [Accessed 17 December 2021].
Smartrecruiters (2021) Recruitment. [blog entry]. www.smartrecruiters.com. Available from https://www.smartrecruiters.com/resources/glossary/recruitment/ [Accessed 17 December 2021].
Prachi, J. (2021) Types of Recruitment. [blog entry]. Management Study Guide Content Team. Available from https://www.managementstudyguide.com/types-of-recruitment.htm [Accessed 17 December 2021].
The recruitment process is more than just a basic selection procedure, and that it needs management decision making and broad planning in order to hire the most suited employees (Price, 1977).
ReplyDeleteRecruitment refers to the overall process of identifying, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, and interviewing candidates for jobs within an organization. Recruitment can also refer to the processes involved in choosing individuals for unpaid roles. So a the details are mentioned clearly this article.
ReplyDeleteThe recruitment of new candidates in an organization depends on the brand name of the institution.
ReplyDeleteExaminations and interviews are the basic stages of the recruitment process. Institutions are now using new technology for this purpose.
Selecting the staff that the organization needs is important for the future of the organization.
A robust pool of candidates, precise qualification screens, proactive strategic alignment with corporate goals, lower attrition, and good morale are all primary benefits of successful recruiting and selection procedures. Thank you
ReplyDeleteRecruitment and selection are the main task do HRM. Currently recruitment process are carried out with the support of technology.
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