Employee Recruitment and Selection Process at Smeda

In place of a prospective employee's cognitive ability, the uniform guidelines insists on personality appraises, biographical information, and various consideration based on race and ethnicity as a base to "hire" the "right" number of appropriate racial and ethnic representations. The skills and technical expertise regarding a given job are regarded lowly especially in situations where a significant proportion of persons from the minority group lacks these skills.

Recruitment refers to hiring a best qualified person for a job opening in a cost efficient and timely manner. This process comprises evaluating the job requirement, attracting the candidates, screening and short listing the qualified applicants, employing and incorporating them with new teams. Talent is the most important assert for any business. Talent Management, which includes recruitment, is a crucial part for any organization’s growth (Limor, 2013).

Recruitment is a form of business contest and it is fiercely competitive. Just as corporations strategize to develop, manufacture, and market the best product or service, so they must also vie to identify, attract, and hire the most qualified people. Recruitment is a business, and it is big business. It demands serious attention from management because any business strategy will falter without the talent to execute it (Cascio, 2013, pg.200). This paper will discuss some recommended recruitment strategies Landslide Limousine should consider.

According to Wright et al (2011) recruitment and selection are part of the human resource practices common within organizations in an effort to develop human capital, which is necessary for better production. Numerous scholars have discussed the issue in different contexts. Pramila (2010) discussed the issue of recruitment and selection in an Indian- based company. The article presents effective recruitment practices, which are valuable for organizations. Among the identified practices include internal recruitment, interviews, personality tests, employer references, succession planning, and newspaper recruitment. According to Najafi (2011) the most important aim is to achieve an improvement in their recruitment and selection. With information provided in this article, the researcher is able to advance a thorough understanding of the different issues on improving recruitment and selection processes within organizations.

This report identifies and assess factors that affect an organisations approach to both attracting talent and recruitment and selection. It also identifies and explains benefits of attracting and retaining a diverse workforce, describes methods of recruitment and methods of selection.

Introduction The recruitment of new employees

The purpose of this report is to research and analyse the recruitment and selection strategies, policies and objectives within Kinetic IT, and how they link to the organisation’s HR strategies, policies and objectives. The main focus of this report will be the recruitment and selection system within Kinetic IT.

In this report I will discuss factors that affect an organization’s approach to both attracting talent and recruitment and selection. My report will also include some recruitment methods and its advantages.

Recruitment provides opportunities for the organisation, even the individual’s development. Understand our business need is the way we used to develop position description.(“Recruitment – 10 Key Steps To Getting The Right Person, First Time!,” n.d.) Proper evaluation and description will lead the business to hiring the right person to fit the job.

Recruitment and selection process held an important role for building a strong sales force performance. This process requires the company to invest through human capital as an important resource. The objective of this process is searching for qualified candidates to fulfil the right positions and hopes that they can make long-run returns for the company. Even though there is no right or wrong way how the company chooses the right candidates for certain positions, every single step in recruiting and selecting candidates should be taken carefully in order to get the right person in the right position.

CIPD (2015) projects that corporate talent recruitment budgets allocation are likely to grow and there is an increased demand for labour in the UK job market. However, CIPD (2015) further notes that businesses are experiencing an acute shortage of skills and there is an increase in competition among companies for top talents in technical, managerial and supervisory positions. Dychtwald, Erickson & Morison (2013) further supports these findings and attributes the UK’s labour shortage to a rapidly growing older generation and a shrinking younger generation. The desire to be successful, outmanoeuvre competitors and remain sustainable is deeply rooted in the business’ survival strategy (Shachar & Hirschl, 2013). Organisations have come to realise that to excel, a skilled and highly trained workforce is necessary (Campbell, Coff & Kryscynski Wang, 2012; Lin & Chu, 2011). Thus, organisations in the UK are increasingly searching for alternative strategies to outdo their competitor’s and recruit top talents. This research involves a large private food processing company in Suffolk that seeks to increase the number of applications for two problematic positions: Machine Operators on the production line and Supervisory Staff in the sales and marketing department. The study will conduct a brief preliminary investigation to determine the recruitment channels available to the HR (Human Resource) manager and then focus on the suitability of employing a recruitment agency. The

On the contrary, candidates are on constant search of good organizations which offer better employment opportunities. Recruitment acts as an intermediate activity between organizations offering employment and candidates seeking employment opportunities. In abstract sense, the concept of recruitment is related to discovery of recruitment sources for selecting prospective employees. If recruitment procedure is followed in a scientific

Employers should also consider the number of employees needed in various jobs, when new employees will be needed, and as it relates to the labor market, the current, and future demand of prospective employees (Chapman et al., 2005).

The recruitment literature according to Breaugh and Starke (JoM, 2000) had been bombarded by criticisms for the lack of substantiated research materials and unanswered questions. The Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology by Guion 1976, devoted one chapter only about recruitment process despite the numerous studies published during 1976. There were questions circulating in the recruitment literature which failed to address the key factors

Recruitment is the process of fulfilling the existing or expected position that is created within an organization by finding and attracting a pool of experienced and qualified people. The main essence of recruitment is to attract the right people in the right place at the right time and cost (Nankervis et al. 2014). In other words, the main guidelines for hiring managers and assistant managers should be focused on recruiting the right people at the right place, time and cost. The key guidelines to recruit managers and assistant managers should be as follows: