Summer Internship Project

Recruitment (attracting, screening, and selecting a qualified

person for a job.)

The recruitment and selection is the major function of the human resource department and recruitment process is the first step towards creating the competitive strength and the strategic advantage for the organizations. Recruitment process involves a systematic procedure from sourcing the candidates to arranging and conducting the interviews and requires many resources and time.

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The recruitment industry has four basic types of firms.

1). Employment agencies deal with clerical, trades, temporary and temporary to hire employment opportunities.

2). Recruitment websites and job search engines used to gather as many candidates as possible by advertising a position over a wide geographic area.

3). Headhunters for executive and professional positions. These firms are either contingency or retained. Although advertising is used to keep a flow of candidates these firms rely on networking as their main source of candidates.

4). Niche agencies specialize in a particular industrial area of staffing. The stages in recruitment include sourcing candidates by networking, advertising or other methods. Utilizing professional interviewing techniques to understand the candidate’s skills.

Social recruitingSocial recruiting is the use of social media for recruitingEmployee referralAn employee referral program is a system where existing employees recommend prospective candidates for the job offered, and if the suggested candidate is hired, the employee who referred receives a cash bonus. In-house recruitmentUnder pressure to reduce costs, both large- and medium-sized employers tend to undertake their own in-house recruitment, using their human resources department.Executive research firms and passive candidate sourcing firmsThese firms are the new hybrid firms in the recruitment world able to combine the research aspects (discovering passive candidates) of recruiting and combine them with the ability to make hires for their clients.

A general recruitment process is as follows:

Identifying the vacancy: The recruitment process begins with the human resource department receiving requisitions for recruitment from any department of the company. These contain:

Posts to be filled Number of persons Duties to be performed Qualifications required Preparing the job description and person specification. Locating and developing the sources of required number and

type of employees (Advertising etc). Short-listing and identifying the prospective employee with

required characteristics. Arranging the interviews with the selected candidates. Conducting the interview and decision making

1. Identify vacancy

2. Prepare job description and job specification

3. Advertising the vacancy

4. Managing the response

5. Short-listing

6. Arrange interviews

7. Conducting interview and decision making

The recruitment process is immediately followed by the selection process i.e. the final interviews and the decision making, conveying

the decision and the appointment formalities.

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