Recruitment& selection

Ibrahim Naveen /IPHRM 5001/Dip. HRM 1st Batch/IIPD

Who will
occupy this
chair?

RECRUITMENT
AND
SELECTION


CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• RECRUITMENT
• IMPORTANCE AND PURPOSE OF
RECRUITMENT
• FACTORS AFFECTING RECRUITMENT
• RECRUIMENT PROCESS
• SELECTION
• IMPORTANCE OF SELECTION
• THE PROCESS OF SELECTION
• CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

The human resource function plays a very
important role in organizations. In today’s highly
complex and competitive situation, choice of
right person at the right place at the right time.
Employers are always looking for the right staff
to fill the job vacancies that they have on offer.
Finding the right staff means that recruitment
and selection processes are a key factor in the
success of any business.

RECRUITMENT
The word ‘recruitment’ has many meaning and
plays an important role. To understand
recruitment in simple terms it is the process of
attracting individuals on a timely basis, in
sufficient numbers, and with appropriate
qualifications, and encouraging them to apply
for jobs with an organization.


Cont… Recruitment

Recruitment is the process of seeking and
attracting a pool of people from which
qualified candidates for job vacancies can be
chosen. (Leslie W. Rue,. and Lloyd L. Byars,),
Recruitment is the process of searching for
prospective employees and stimulating them to
apply for jobs in the organizations. (Edwin B. Flippo).


IMPORTANCE AND PURPOSE OF
RECRUITMENT

One of the most important aspects of the
recruitment and selection process is to have a
clear framework for short listing candidates for a
vacancy.
This means that an employer should have some
idea of what they want to see on a person’s
resume or CV and what kind of experience they
expect a potential employee to have had.


Cont… Importance and Purpose of Recruitment

Recruiting someone into your business, regardless
of the role, is an important investment. The aim
of your recruitment process should be to select the
best applicant for the role. The general purposes
of recruitment are:

01. Attract and encourage more and more candidates
to apply in the organization.



02. Recruitment is the process which links the
employers with the employees.
03. Determine the present and future requirement
of the organization in conjunction with its
personnel planning and job analysis activities;
04. Increase the job pool of job candidates at
minimum cost;
05. Create a talent pool of candidates to enable the
selection of best candidates for the organization.


06. Help increase the success rate of selection
process by decreasing number of visibly under
qualified or overqualified job applicants.
07. Help reduce the probability that job
applicants, once recruited selected, will leave the
organization only after a short period of time;
08. Meet the organizations legal and social
obligation regarding the composition of its
workforce;


09. Being identifying and preparing potential job
applicants who will be appropriate candidates;
10. Increase organization individual effectiveness
in the short term and long term;
11. Evaluate the effectiveness of various
recruiting technique and sources for all types of
job applicants.


FACTORS AFFECTING
RECRUITMENT
The recruitment function of the organization is
affected and governed by a mix of various internal
and external forces.
INTERNAL FACTORS
The internal forces or factors are the factors
that can be controlled by the organization.
EXTERNAL FACTORS
And the external factors are those factors which
cannot be controlled by the organization.

RECRUIMENT PROCESS

As stated earlier, recruitment is the process of
location, identifying, and attracting capable
applications for jobs available in an
organization.


Cont… Recruitment Process

Accordingly, the recruitment process comprises
the following five steps:

Recruitment planning;
Strategy Development;

Searching;

Screening;

Evaluation and Control.

SELECTION
 Selection is the process of picking individuals (out of the
pool of job applicants) with requisite qualifications and
competence to fill jobs in the organization.

 A formal definition of Selection is:- “ It is the process of
differentiating between applicants in order to identify (and
here) those with a greater likelihood of success in a job.’’


IMPORTANCE OF SELECTION

Selecting the right employees is important for
three main reasons: performance, costs and legal
obligations.
Performance:
Cost:
Legal Obligations:


THE PROCESS OF SELECTION
 Selection is usually a series of hurdles or steps. Each one must
be successfully cleared before the applicant proceeds to the
next.

01. Screening Applicants

02. Arranging the Interview

03. The Interview

04. Selection Tests

05. Hiring Decision


Cont… The Process of Selection

06. Reference Checks
07. Criminal Background Checks
08. Medical or Drug Screening
09. Disqualification of Applicants
10. Post Interview


CONCLUSION
• Recruitment is said to be positive in its approach as it seeks to
attract as many candidates as possible.

• Selection, on the other hand, is negative in its application in as
it seeks to eliminate as many unqualified applicants as possible
in order to identify the right candidates.

• Recruiting people with the right skills and qualities is essential for
any organization if it is to maintain and improve its efficiency.

• Careful analysis of the job to be done, and of the competencies
required to do it, is necessary if the right people are to be fitted
into the right job.

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