Interview and Recruitment 2

Recruitment
It is the process of generating a pool of capable people to apply or employment to an organization.

Selection
It is the process by which managers and others use specific instruments to choose from a pool of applicants a person or persons most likely to succeed in the job(s), given management goals and legal requirements.

Recruitment and Selection

1. Recruitment and selection are vital to the formation of a positive psychological contract, which provides the basis of organizational commitment and motivation.
2. The attraction and retention of employees is part of the evolving employment relationship, based on a mutual and reciprocal understanding of expectations.
3. There are wide variations in recruitment and selection practices, reflecting an organization’s strategy and its philosophy towards the management of people.

• Progressive HR practices are crucial to a positive psychological contract.

– this includes attention to effective recruitment and selection practices.

Recruitment and Attraction
The main approaches to attracting applicants can be summarized as follows:
• Walk-ins
• Employee referrals
• Advertising
• Websites
• Professional associations
• Educational associations
• Professional agencies
• E-recruitment (general recruitment agents/companies’ own sites)
• Word-of-mouth

Evaluating Recruiting

•          Analyzing costs / benefits of methods

•          Yield ratios

–         The number of qualified applicants generated divided by the total number generated

–         Can compute yield ratios for different types of applicants, each recruiting method, and at each stage of the selection process

•          Recruiters

–         Number of applications processed, number of successful hires