Resourcing Talent
Report – Findings
This report will look at Talent Planning in organisations. Talent Planning describes an organisation’s commitment to recruit, retain, and develop talented employees to meet current and future organisational needs. It focuses on recruitment, ensuring the right people are attracted to the organisation.
Factors that affect an organisation’s approach to attracting talent:
There are a number of factors that affect an organisation’s approach to attracting talent, one of them being the image of the organisation. This has a great influence on attracting talent. An organisation with a good image may find it easier to attract and retain employees. The image of the company is based on what they do and
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HR planning is also a key factor affecting the approach to recruitment and selection. HR planning and the recruitment and selection process are highly related to each other. The objective of recruitment is decided in HR planning. It allows HR managers to do an analysis of the organisational needs. An example of this could be the organisational strategy may determine the need for graduates in a graduate scheme to change the organisational structure for which they will ask the HR function to conduct a recruitment and selection process for hiring graduates only.
Benefits of different recruitment and selection methods:
There are a number of methods an organisation can use to recruit staff. Recruitment agencies are an effective tool as they save valuable management time and they can also decrease the administratve load for the organisation, and it removes a lot of stress and hassle. Another benefit is that there are agencies that may specialise in your field.
Internal recruitment is another method used. It is cheaper and may be quicker to recruit. Another advantage is existing employees are already familiar with the business and how it operates. It also provides opportunities for promotion within the organisation which can be motivating for staff, and they are aware of the strengths and weaknesses of internal candidates.
The internet is now a popular recruitment method that comes with many
This is beneficial to the business so you don’t spend time and money training new employees, meaning that those who are recruited internally are able to get on without needed any form of training that would be as time consuming in addition to the process being cost effective. Another benefit of internal recruitment is that there are opportunities for promotion, this means that it will motivate the employees to work harder which allows the business to run even more effectively. In addition to that, you know that by promoting that someone, they will be perfectly suited for the role in
Recruitment can incur a very large cost to an employer, therefore, organizations try to uses the method of recruitment which will have the lowest cost impact to the organization for each candidate.
Employment agency is another option for external recruitments. Companies can simply provide job description to agencies where vacancies will be introduced to people who are looking for jobs.
* A review of three different recruitment methods that can be used, and when it is appropriate to use them.
Recruiting inside the organisation has both pros and cons, some of the benefits would be knowing what the person is already capable of in the job and if they are open to learning new things, how well they do in their position already and how motivated they are towards their job. There are also negatives about recruiting from inside the work place, the employee could feel overly comfortable and friendly in the job and with their colleagues resulting in them not being motivated to do work.
* Image of the company; Organisation with a positive image and diverse workforce will have more chances of attracting, recruiting and retaining the talent. Negative image leads to loss of trust from employees current and potential, as well as all business partners or customers.
The issue with many companies today is that their organizations put tremendous effort into attracting employees to their company. The process of attracting and retaining profitable employees, as it is increasingly more competitive between firms and of strategic importance, has come to be known as the war for talent.
It is essential for every organisation to understand the recruitment trends as by attracting the best talent, organisations will have an advantage over their competitors. When talent planning, organisations should promote a career opportunity, not a job opportunity as this gives a whole new outlook to any potential employee.
For an organisation to attract talent successfully, as part of the talent planning policy it needs to identify and assess what factors affect its approach to attracting talent. For example:
Agencies are often used to employ temporary staff. A benefit of using employment agencies is that they are able to recruit people quickly as they already have many people looking for work on their books and they can sift out suitable applicants with the necessary qualifications or experience easily without the organisation having to look through many CV’s or application forms.
The recruitment process is multifaceted. Recruitment begins from the time an organization or human resources manager must determine a recruitment plan. A recruitment plan must include the avenues in which recruitment will be pursued. The recruitment process also includes shortlisting any qualified candidates from the responses, and the entire interview process (including multiple rounds of interviews). This aspect of human resources management is all about attracting the best and the brightest of candidates, convincing them that the organization is the best fit for their career aspirations, and capturing or finally hiring the candidate. This process is not only intended to fill a vacant position, but to also help build the strength of the organization overall.
Internal sources come from internal company that conducts the recruitment. Recruitment using these sources is relatively quick and inexpensive. Company does not need any advertisement, head hunter or any other form of recruitment that is costly.
During the recent past however, when the company became a more dominant global competitor and a publicly traded conglomerate, the numbers of employees leaving the firm have increased, generating adjacent problems of employee recruitment, training and retention. In other words, the major challenges currently faced by the company are related to talent management. At a more specific level, the issues refer to the following:
Talent acquisition is defined as the “strategic approach to identifying, attracting and onboarding top talent to efficiently and effectively meet dynamic business needs” (Erickson, 2012). Talent acquisition has the unique role of ensuring job applicants not only have the right credentials for the job, but also have the right mentality for the job. In other words, the person who ultimately will be offered the job needs to ‘fit’ within the firm’s structure and culture.
Talent – a vital word which can always be found here and there when corporations and business owners come to talk about innovation, new ideas and development. They need talent in its best form. They search for it all around the globe to meet the challenges that threaten to crumble their business. This commodity is rare and putting your choice on the right person is not easy but if you make your recruiting plan right from the time of recruiting till they get employed at your company, you can find with the best brains in town for your company. Here are some tips to keep in mind: