“Not every organization has formalized HR support, so what can you do to ensure you hire the right person?“

10. Best Practices in Employee Recruitment and Selection

The procedures of hiring and selecting employees are essential to the development and success of any business. Good hiring procedures aid in luring and keeping top talent, and the selection procedure guarantees that the most qualified applicants are selected under the needs and culture of the business. We'll look at a few of the top recruiting strategies in this post, including how to find and hire qualified candidates, Fakher, (2023).

10.1.What is recruitment/Selection?

This is the phase where the actual prospective candidates are selected and hired by the company. It is a long and arduous process. Recruitment and selection can follow only after manpower planning has ascertained the demand for new workers. The recruitment and selection process varies from company to company, Chungyalpa, (2016).

Recruitment is the process of identifying, attracting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and onboarding employees. It involves everything from identifying a staffing need to filling it. Organizations can have teams of recruiters, and hiring managers, or outsource recruiting. Companies often recruit candidates through advertisements, job boards, and social media.

10.2.What is recruiting in HRM?

HRM is the management of employees within an organization, focusing on recruitment as the first step in building its human capital, aiming to locate and hire the best candidates on time and within budget.

10.3.What does recruitment involve?

While the recruitment process is unique to each organization, there are 15 essential steps to the hiring process. We’ve listed them here, but for a detailed exploration of these steps, check out our page on Hiring Process Steps:

• Identify the hiring need
• Devise a recruitment plan
• Write a job description
• Advertise the position
• Recruit the position
• Review applications
• Phone Interview/Initial Screening
• Interviews
• Applicant Assessment
• Background Check
• Decision
• Reference Check
• Job offer
• Hiring
• Onboarding

10.4.Recruitment Process

Figer 1. Recruitment Process

Here are the seven steps to an effective recruitment process:

• Planning
• Strategy development
• Search
• Screening
• Interviews and selection
• Job offer and onboarding
• Evaluation of the recruitment process
• Youtube-Recruitment Process
  
  

10.5.Benefits of an effective and comprehensive recruiting process

• Support organizational goals
• Improve retention
• Boosts efficiency

10.6.Tips for Recruiting Candidates

• Be open to internal candidates
• Post advertisements in many different places
• Partner with staffing agencies

Conclusion

At its core, recruiting is a rather simple concept--it encompasses identifying candidates and hiring them to fill open positions. However, effective recruiting combines a bit of art with science. It requires implementing repeatable processes that will lead to reliable results, on the one hand. On the other, it requires sophistication to think outside the box to find your ideal candidate.

References:

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-practices-employee-recruitment-selection-muhammad-fakher-mba/[Accessed 08 04 2024].

• Chungyalpa, W. (2016). Best Practices and Emerging Trends in Recruitment and Selection. Journal of Entrepreneurship & Organization Management · January 2016, 2-5.[Accessed 08 04 2024].

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