Recruitment & Selection
Recruitment & Selection
Recruitment & Selection
Size of Demographic
Organization factor
Recruitment
Labor market
policy
Legal
considerations
Factors affecting Recruitment
Sources of recruitment
Internal
• Present Employees (HRIS)
• Employee Referrals
• Job postings
• Moonlighting
• Promotions and Transfer
• Former Employees
• Previous Applicants
• Succession Planning
Internal Sources
Advantages Disadvantage
• Familiarity with own • Inbreeding leads to less
employees diversity
• Better use of talent • Limited choice
• Economical • Discourages competition
• Aids succession planning • Stagnation of skills
• Improves morale • Create conflicts
• Better motivator • Breeds Politics
Sources of recruitment
External
• E-Recruiting • Job Fairs
• Media Sources • Campus Recruitments
• Deputation
• Employment
• Word-of-mouth
Exchanges
• Raiding/ Poaching
• Employee Agencies • Labor Unions
• Professional • Outsourcing and Offshoring
Associations • Executive recruits (Head Hunters)
• Customers • Internships
External Source
Advantages Disadvantages
• Brings in new perspective • Expensive and Time
• Open Process consuming
• Availability of talented • Unfamiliarity with the
candidates organization
• Opportunity to select the best • Discourages existing
candidate employees
• Provides healthy competition • Loss of time to settle
Trends seen in Recruitment
• Outsourcing
• E-Recruitment
• Job boards
• Career websites
• Employer websites
• Social Networking sites
• Blogging
• Poaching
Recruitment evaluation and
metrics
Recruitment
Metrics Recruitment
Satisfaction Analysis
Time to fill
openings (55%)
Recruitment Selection
• Follows recruitment
• Technically precedes selection
• Identifying and encouraging • Choosing the best out of
potential candidates to apply those recruited
for jobs in the organizations • Negative such that it
• Positive in that it increases the involves rejecting large
number of job seekers for numbers to identify best fit
wider choices
• Involves searching • Involves comparing those
already searched
Job Analysis
Recruitment
Selection Process
Pre employment screening
Application Form
Background check
Additional Interview
Medical Examination
Job Placement
Need for scientific search
False True
Successful
Negative Positive
Error
Selection Criterion
True False
Unsuccessful
Negative Positive
Error
Reject Accept
Selection Criterion
Tests
Ability Personality
Aptitude Interest
Achievement Personality
Intelligence Projective
Judgmental Attitude
Biographical
Interviews Interview
Behavioural
Interview
Competency
Interview
More
Situational
Interview
Structure
Stress
Interview
Non Directive
Interview
Less
Low High
Validity
Interviewing
Avoid Interviewer Bias
• Snap Judgments
• Lack of clarity on competencies or job requirements
• Contrast effect
• Confirmation bias
• Succumbing to Impression Management/ First Impressions
• Stereotyping
• Inconsistencies
• Halo/ Horns effect
• Non verbal bias