Importance of Recruitment

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Importance of Recruitment

• Provides organization with a pool of qualified
  candidates
• The more qualified the pool the better the
  success rate in selection
• Can help the organization meet affirmative action
  goals
• Can increase organizational effectiveness

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Internal Sources and Methods

• Sources
• Promotion from within
• Transfer
• Job rotation
• Rehires and recall
• Methods
• Job posting
• Skills inventory

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External Sources

• Employee referrals
• Walk-ins
• Employment agencies
• Other companies
• Temporary help
• Trade associations unions
• Schools
• Hiring fairs
• Aliens

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External methods

• Radio TV
• Newspapers and trade journals
• Computerized services

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Increasing the Pool

• Conveying the information
• Job interview
• The usual interview
• The realistic interview
• Job matching
• Early entry High school programs

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Increasing the Pool, Cont.

• Expanding Job opportunities
• Examine entry position qualifications
• Provide training, career paths, mentoring
• Alternative work arrangement
• Flextime
• Compressed work week
• Telecommuting
• Job sharing

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Increasing the Pool, Cont.

• Security
• Core of full time employees
• Mantle of free lancers, contract workers, temps,
  and part-timers

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Job Search from the Applicants Perspective

• Sources
• Referrals
• Direct application
• Advertisements
• Employment agencies

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Job Search, cont.

• Intensity of search
• financial need
• self-esteem
• training
• Evaluation of choices
• Occupational choice
• Organizational choice

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Employee Socialization

• Pre-entry
• Entry
• Orientation mentoring

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Issues

• Work force diversity
• Evaluation of recruitment process
• Contract recruiting
• Rejection
• International comparisons

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Backwards Forwards

• Summing up Weve considered the importance of
  recruitment to the organization, internal
  external sources for recruiting, ways to increase
  the pool of qualified applicant job searching,
  and some current issues.
• Looking ahead Next time we begin examining
  staffing selection