The Recruitment Process

a successful recruiting process results from understanding why you're recruiting employees and the type of employees you need let's take a look at the recruitment process too often managers have an opening and immediately pull together a recruitment advertisement to send off to a local newspaper or to post on the internet they do this without giving much thought to what they are doing or why they're doing it having an opening and filling it seems to be the mentality managers are often under pressure to fill job vacancies as quickly as possible they generally do not want to overwork

other employees who are performing necessary tasks and they do not want to let critical work slow down or be left undone so they want to get recruiting done as soon as possible the same managers would never consider spending a large sum of the organization's money for new equipment without careful planning shouldn't they spend just as much time and effort planning for employee recruitment as they do is purchasing the right equipment actually recruitment probably deserves more time and attention after all employees hired today will be employees making decisions tomorrow about how the company will spend its

money of course many managers do understand that spending some time developing a recruiting strategy will save them time and money later the first step in a successful recruitment plan is to decide on the objective for the recruiting process is the objective to simply generate a few candidates or applicants and make a quick hiring decision or is the objective simply to recruit a large number of applicants and hope some are qualified to fill openings knowing the best sources for recruitment and carefully crafting a recruitment message is part of a solid plan the Job Description includes job

specifications which are a detailed account of the specific competencies employees must possess to be successful in the job you can prepare a Job Description yourself or use one prepared by the organization either way having a good grasp of the positions job duties and require is essential even if the hiring manager has someone else prepare the ad copy he or she has to give the preparer the information to include this information coupled with knowledge of the firm's goals and values lays the foundation for the recruitment plan when you understand the required competencies how do you recruit

employees who will have them as a hiring manager you need to be in the best position to know what type of employee will fit the job and the organization therefore you need to be able to make strategic decisions during each step of the recruitment process one of these strategic decisions relates to where you look to find employees a successful organization recognizes that it's important to recruit both internally within the organization and externally outside of the organization [Music] you