In today’s competitive world every company tries to get best possible candidates for the competitive advantage so, recruitment and selection of right candidates is important for all companies. It is a major function of the human resource department. For IT companies’ recruitment and selection is an integral part as attrition in IT companies is very high.
Recruitment is the process of searching the candidates for employment and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the organization. The basic purpose of recruitments is to create a talent pool of candidates to enable the selection of best candidates for the organization, by attracting more and more employees to apply in the organization.
The project named Recruitment Life Cycle was carried out at Persistent Systems Ltd. There are two types of recruitment at Persistent, campus and lateral recruitment, campus recruitment is conducted once in a year at the respective colleges and lateral recruitments are conducted as per the requirements. For lateral recruitment recruiter needs to understand the job description to find the right candidates for the job then recruiter needs to source the candidates from different job portals like Monster, Naukri etc. After sourcing, candidates are screened by different interviewers at different levels. If candidate clears all the round of interviews then an offer is made to employee depending upon the grades specified by the interviewer.
The recruiter also had to meet targets, i.e., he had to see to it that a certain number of candidates sourced are joining the organization.
The conclusions that can be drawn from the project are the recruiter must understand the importance of that particular job posting to find the best fit candidates. Also the automation in recruitments is the need of an hour. The Option of employee reference must be used properly to attract the right candidates. Thus, it was a very dynamic and challenging job that
References: Bibliography Text Books Human Resource Management by K Ashwathappa Websites www.CiteHR.com www.gtirecruitment.com www.jobseekersadvice.com www.persistent.co.in www.naukrihub.com