HRM Chapter 5

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Name: Syed Noman Zia

Enrollment No.: 02-112182-056 (4B)


Course: Human Resource
Management
Topic: Personnel Planning and
Recruiting.
Course Instructor: Ms. Sheena Pitafi

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Personnel Planning and Recruiting (Summary)

The Recruitment and Selection Process


In this chapter before looking toward the Recruitment and selection process, let
focus on the essential series of steps that are required by every organization and
Managers traditionally follow these steps.

1. Decide what positions you’ll have to fill through personnel planning and
forecasting.
2. Build a pool of candidates for these jobs by recruiting internal or external
candidates.
3. Have candidate’s complete application forms and perhaps undergo an
initial screening interview.
4. Use selection techniques like tests, background investigations, and physical
exams to identify viable candidates.
5. Decide who to make an offer to, by having the supervisor and perhaps
others on the team interview the candidates.

Steps in Recruitment and Selection Process


The procedure for determining the duties and skill requirements of a job and the
kind of person who should be hired for it. The recruitment and selection process
are the series of hurdles aimed at selecting the best candidate for the job.

Step 1: Employment planning and forecasting.


Step 2: Recruitments: Building a pool of candidates.
Step 3: Candidates: Applicants fill application form.
Step 4: Organizations use selections tool like test to screen out best applicants.
Step 5: Supervisors and other interviewee finalize other candidates to make final
choices.
Step 6: Last, Selected candidates become employees.

Recruitment and selection start with personnel planning and forecasting.


Personnel planning is the process of deciding what positions the firm will have
to fill, and how to fill them. This often starts by forecasting personnel needs,
perhaps using trend analysis. Forecasting the supply of outside candidate is
important, particularly when entering periods of economic expansion where
unemployment is low and good candidates are more difficult to come by.

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Employers use a variety of outside sources of candidates when recruiting
applicants. It is quick and cost effective. One downside is too many applicants
from too far, but employer’s use applicant tracking software to screen online
applicants.

Guidelines for Choosing a Recruiter:

• Make sure the firm is capable of conducting a thorough search.


• Meet the individual who will actually handle your assignment.
• Ask how much the search firm charges.

Recruitments:
 Employee referrals and Walk-ins
Applicants who are referred to the organization by current employees:

1. Referring employees become stakeholders.


2. Referral is a cost-effective recruitment program.
3. Referral can speed up diversifying the workforce

Direct applicants who seek employment with or without encouragement


from other sources.
Courteous treatment of any applicant is a good business practice.

 Executive recruiters
A special type of employment agency, are invaluable in finding and
helping the employer hire top-level professionals and executives. However,
the employer needs to ensure that the recruiter is conducting a thorough
search that the recruiter is conducting a thorough search and carefully
checking references.

 College recruiting and walk-ins and military personnel


The recruitment process inevitably includes developing and using
application forms to collect essential background information about the
applicant. The application should enable you to make judgments on
substantial matters such as the person’s education and to identify the
persons job references and supervisors.

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