A Review on Recruitment and Selection

  Selection is the process of picking individuals who have relevant qualifications to fill jobs in an organization (Al-Kassem, 2017) . Selection is much more than just choosing the best candidate. It is an attempt to strike a happy balance between what the applicant can and wants to do and what the organization requires (Neeraj Kumari 2012) . The process of selecting qualified individuals to fill vacancies in the organization. In other words, the organization will not have much chance of success if it fails to choose the people with the necessary qualifications because the main goal is to hire the best person and it is a fundamental principle in equal employment opportunities laws (Aleksandra Stoilkovska and others 2015) . Finally, it was explained the end result of a constructive recruitment is having suitable competent candidates from the pool of people (Ayesha Yaseen 2015) . The next step is selecting the most productive and suitable person according to the requirements of t...

  Common sequential steps in the recruitment process (G van der Waldt 2014)   1) Identify the need to recruit/determine whether a vacancy exist 2) Update the job description, specification and profile 3) Determine the key performance areas of the job/recruitment planning 4) Consult the recruitment policy and procedure 5) Consider the sources of recruitment (searching) 6) Choose the appropriate recruitment method 7) Develop the recruitment advertisement/strategy development   8) Place the advertisement in the most appropriate and suitable communication medium/implement a decision 9) Ensuring availability of application blanks/ensure pool of potential qualified applications/allow sufficient time for responses 10) Screen responses/screening 11) Recruitment evaluation and control The organization’s decision on whether to adopt the internal or external depends on many factors. Motivating factors have been mentioned in the recruitment and selection proce...

  Internal Recruitment   This is for those people who are already working in the organization; the HR publish the circular on the notice board and online portal to invite the deserving employees to participate in the interview so they can also upgrade their position level and avail their career growth.  In this case, employees refer to their resumes personally and sometimes by their internal communication portal. This process may not be followed in all companies and organizations, for example in the study (Sintheya Rahman 2011). Some of the advantages of internal hiring have been mentioned. We review what each of Stonner, Freeman and Gilbert (2000) identified three advantages of an organization’s policy to recruit from within. First, individuals recruited from within are already familiar with the organization and its members, and this knowledge increases the likelihood that they will succeed. Secondly, a promotion from within policy fosters loyalty and inspires greate...

  Recruitment    Recruitment is the process of searching the candidates for employment and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the organization (Biswas2012). Recruitment refers to the discovery and development of the sources of required personnel so that sufficient number of candidates will always be available for employment in the organization Nzuve (1997).  The purpose of recruitment is to seek out or explore, to evaluate, to induce and to obtain commitment from the prospective employees so as to fill up positions required for successful operation and organization. It is also defined as the process of creating a group of qualified candidates for vacancies within organizations (Raghavi and Gopinathan 2013). In both professional and non-professional fields, employment will include an attempt to identify a diverse group of applicants with the necessary qualifications and capabilities, and inform them of available job opportunities. There are various methods of...

Introduction                                                 The human resource management activities are considered one of the most important activities that have an impact on companies and among these activities are Recruitment and selection processes and a vital part of HR routines to retain top talent and build a strong, consistent team, the HR manager needs to know how to do the recruitment and selection process the right way (Stjerne and Svejenova, 2016).   The recruitment process aims to focus on attracting, selecting, and designing the appropriate candidates for one or more positions within an organization, permanent or temporary (Stjerne, I. and Svejenova, S., 2016). The importance of the recruitment process is to prevent hiring the wrong person, who may cost the organization very much due to the inefficiency and decision-...