In this assignment I will be demonstrating the way in which two businesses plan their recruitment and selection process. The two businesses I have chosen to speculate are Toys ‘R’ Us and in contrast I have chosen Hublot. I have chosen to write about these two contrasting businesses because they can show two different approaches to the recruitment and selection process.
Recruitment Planning:
The first stage of recruitment that you may be aware of it as an applicant. This is after the organisation has placed the advertisement and you have applied for it, but a lot of work happens before this stage. Part of recruitment planning involves the organisation working out if they need to recruit anyone at all. There may be lots of reasons why an organisation may think about recruiting. The organisation will then need to consider whether to undertake internal or external recruitment, and how that process is going to take place. You will need to be aware of the different possible methods and influences on which choices an organisation makes.
Reasons for Vacancy:
Reasons for vacancies could come open up for many reasons; maternity/paternity leave, injury to workers, expansion of the business and many more.
Reasons for vacancies open up in Toys ‘R’ Us as it is an always expanding business, this allows opportunities for workers to be stronger. Also Toys ‘R’ Us, being a family toy shop they sell according to a niche market; this means that they will have vacancies according to seasonal events such as Christmas, Easter and others.
Hublot have a much smaller window of opportunity for vacancies as they are very specialised and much smaller company. A vacancy at Hublot can come along for the same reasons but with smaller opportunity window as they mainly only hire specialised workers to make the high end luxury watches.
The two companies contrast as Toys ‘R’ Us do not need specialised workers. Whereas, Hublot would require the highest