Date -28/12/12 • What is Recruitment? For the procurement of employees HRM is to do the sub-operative functions of recruitment and selection. Before doing the functions of recruitment and selection HRM is determine the standards against which recruitment and selection are to be done. For the job analysis is to be done that has been already discussed.
Recruitment means the process through which employees with potentialities are searched, identified and encourage going for employment. • Sources of recruitment: Employees can be recruited from two sources- 1. Internal sources 2. External sources or out side sources. 1. Internal sources: Internal or inside sources mean that process when recruitment is done from employees presently working inside the organization. Advantage: Recruitment from inside sources enjoys some benefits. These are: a. Firstly HRM can recruit employees from presently working employees of the organization. HRM has got much information about the employees working in the organization. As such HRM can recruit employees with more accuracy and correctness. b. Secondly, cost of recruitment becomes less as recruitment is done from employees working organization. c. Thirdly, It recruitment is made from inside sources the moral and the level of motivation is heightened because in case of recruitment from inside sources the process of promotion is followed. It is to be noted that recruitment from inside sources can be practiced in case of thus jobs that are present in the upper position of the organization. As such at the entry point of employment HRM can not recruit employees from inside sources. Rather HRM shall have to go to out side sources for recruitment. Disadvantage: The important disadvantage of recruitment from inside sources is that, new ideas and thinking can not enter into the organization. As such the level of creativity in the