HRM Function: Recruitment and Selection

Purpose

• To attract the persons with required competencies and skills
• To select the appropriate persons and plan/facilitate their joining the organization

Steps

• Identify and decide the job/position vacancies (given out by the human resources planning or manpower planning process)
• Communicate these requirements of human resources to the external environment as well as to the internal environment of the organization
• Make sure to elicit right kind of adequate responses to these requirements
• Find out the best fit persons for the positions/jobs from among the responses
• Work out the job offers and make job offers to the best fit persons and ensure that they accept the offers
• Plan out and facilitate joining of the selected persons in the organization

Methods

Recruitment

• Campuses of schools/colleges/institutions/universities
• Posting the vacancies with complete job/position descriptions on company's web site
• Announcing/advertising in newspapers, business magazines
• Associating with recruiting or placement agents to get the right kind of candidates for the requirements
• Internal communication within the company about the vacancies with complete job/position description
• Employee referrals
• Walk-ins

Selection

• Collecting biodata/CVs/resumes
• Screening these against the job/position requirements and shortlisting
• Tests and group discussions (various types as required)
• Interviews (telephonic, video conferencing, personal meetings)
• Background checks of selected candidates and other validations like medical fitness etc
• Work out the details of job offers: salary and other associated details
• Make job offers
• Plan and facilitate joining of selected persons

Effectiveness of Recruitment and Selection Functions

• Lead time of positioning the people in the organization
• Cost of recruitment and selection
• Quality of selected persons
• Percentage of persons joined against those offered
• Employee turn over rate

(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia “Management Universe” at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)

Books Suggested for Your Professional/Personal Library (All the titles as paperbacks and eBooks available online from Amazon)

Books Authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar (eBooks and printed books available online from  Amazon)

Management, Business, Self-help & Personality Development Books

1. HSoftware (Human Software) (The Only Key to Higher Effectiveness)

2. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)

3. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies) (volume 2)

4. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers

5. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers (Volume 2)

6. Classic Team Building Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers

7. 101 Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers

8. 101 Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers

9. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)

10. HSoftware (Shyam Bhatawdekar’s Effectiveness Model)

11. Competency Management (Competency Matrix and Competencies)

12. Soft Skills You Can’t Do Without (Goal Setting, Time Management, Assertiveness and Anger Management)

13. Essentials of Work Study (Method Study and Work Measurement)

14. Essentials of Time Management (Taking Control of Your Life)

15. Essentials of 5S Housekeeping

16. Essentials of Quality Circles

17. Essentials of Goal Setting

18. Essentials of Anger Management

19. Essentials of Assertive Behavior

20. Essentials of Performance Management & Performance Appraisal

21. Essentials of Effective Communication

22. Health Essentials (Health Is Wealth)

23. The Romance of Intimacy (How to Enhance Intimacy in a Relationship?)

Novels, Stories, Biographies and Travelogues

24. The Peace Crusaders (Novel: thriller, mystery, adventure)

25. Love Knows No Bounds (Novel: a refreshingly different love story that discusses an important and topical societal issue. Also available with the title “Good People”)

26. The New World Order (Novel: socioeconomic, thriller, mystery, adventure)

27. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories

28. Stories Children Will Love (Volume 1: Bhanu-Shanu-Kaju-Biju and Dholu Ram Gadbad Singh)

29. My Father (Biography)

30. Travelogue: Scandinavia, Russia

31. Travelogue: Europe

32. Travelogue: Central Europe

33. Travelogue: Egypt (Mysteries of Egypt)

34. सीमाओं के परे: (एक अलग प्रेम कहानी) (Novel in Hindi)

35. अमन के सिपाही (Novel in Hindi)

36. अभिजात प्रेम (एक वेगळी प्रेम कथा) (Novel in Marathi)