Recruitment
ABSTRACT
Recruitment is one of the important activities under human resource management function which impact most critically on the performance of organisation. It is very clear and true that if recruitment is done poorly in organisation it will affect in the achievement of goal.
This essay discusses on some of the advantages and disadvantages of external and internal recruitment. It will identify the different methods that organisation can choose under internal or external recruitment and also merits and demerits of these methods. Most importantly this essay will discuss on how excessive dependence on external recruitment source by an organisation can lead to the failure of that organisation because of heavy dependence on largely unknown person.
Recruitment is the process of selecting and attracting a pool of qualified applicant from which candidates for job vacancies can be selected (stone, 2008). Organisations need to recruit skilled and qualified workers whenever there are job vacancies within the organisation. Human Resource (HR) manager need to perform different activities for the effective recruitment such as determining and categorising the organisation’s long term and short term needs, developing appropriate recruitment advertisements, following up the applicants to evaluate the success of the recruiting efforts, keep prepared to changing circumstances in the labour market and so on (stone, 2008). Organisations decide which type of recruitment sources they want to choose so that they can hire the talented people. These sources can either be internal or external. Both of these recruitment sources have their own advantages and disadvantages however organisations are admitting to failure which need to recruit constantly from outside. Organisations also have to take a huge gamble on a largely unknown person when they recruit employees from outside.
In an organisation external recruitment is required to get the skills that the present workers do not
Recruitment is one of the important activities under human resource management function which impact most critically on the performance of organisation. It is very clear and true that if recruitment is done poorly in organisation it will affect in the achievement of goal.
This essay discusses on some of the advantages and disadvantages of external and internal recruitment. It will identify the different methods that organisation can choose under internal or external recruitment and also merits and demerits of these methods. Most importantly this essay will discuss on how excessive dependence on external recruitment source by an organisation can lead to the failure of that organisation because of heavy dependence on largely unknown person.
Recruitment is the process of selecting and attracting a pool of qualified applicant from which candidates for job vacancies can be selected (stone, 2008). Organisations need to recruit skilled and qualified workers whenever there are job vacancies within the organisation. Human Resource (HR) manager need to perform different activities for the effective recruitment such as determining and categorising the organisation’s long term and short term needs, developing appropriate recruitment advertisements, following up the applicants to evaluate the success of the recruiting efforts, keep prepared to changing circumstances in the labour market and so on (stone, 2008). Organisations decide which type of recruitment sources they want to choose so that they can hire the talented people. These sources can either be internal or external. Both of these recruitment sources have their own advantages and disadvantages however organisations are admitting to failure which need to recruit constantly from outside. Organisations also have to take a huge gamble on a largely unknown person when they recruit employees from outside.
In an organisation external recruitment is required to get the skills that the present workers do not