RECRUITMENT &

SELECTION

DEFINITION AND MEANING

OF RECRUITMENT
According to Edwin B. Flippo, Recruitment is the
process of searching the candidates for employment
and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the
organization
Meaning:
Recruitment is the activity that links the employers
and the job seekers.
A process of finding and attracting capable
applicants for employment

A process of finding and attracting capable applicants

for employment. The process begins when new recruits
are sought and ends when their applications are
submitted. The result is a pool of applications from
which new employees are selected.
It is the process to discover sources of manpower to
meet the requirement of staffing and to employ
effective measures for attracting that manpower in
adequate numbers to facilitate effective selection of
an efficient working force.

RECRUITMENT NEEDS
ARE OF THREE TYPES
PLANNED
The needs arising from changes in organization and retirement
policy.

ANTICIPATED
Anticipated needs are those movements in personnel, which an
organization can predict by studying trends in internal and
external environment.

UNEXPECTED
Resignation, deaths, accidents, illness give rise to
unexpected needs.

IMPORTANCE OF
RECRUITMENT
Attract and encourage more and more candidates to
apply in the organisation.
Create a talent pool of candidates to enable the
selection of best candidates for the organisation.
Recruitment is the process which links the
employers with the employees.
Increase the pool of job candidates at minimum cost.
Help increase the success rate of selection process.

RECRUITMENT PROCESS
1.

Identify vacancy

2.

Prepare job description

and person specification

3.

Advertising the vacancy

4.

Managing the response

5.

Short-listing

6.

Arrange interviews

7.

Conducting interview
and decision making

SOURCES OF
RECRUITMENT

External Sources
Walk-ins
Employee referrals
Advertising
Educational associations
Professional agencies
E-recruitment (general recruitment
agents/ companies own sites)

Word-of-mouth

FACTORS AFFECTING
RECRUITMENT

TRENDS ARE BEING

SEEN IN
RECRUITMENT
Outsourcing
Poaching
E-Recruitment

E-RECRUITMENT
The buzzword and the latest trends in recruitment is the
E-Recruitment. Also known as Online recruitment, it is
the use of technology or the web based tools to assist the
recruitment process. The tool can be either a job website
like naukri.com, the organisations corporate web site or
its own intranet.
The internet penetration in India is increasing and has
tremendous potential. According to a study by NASSCOM
Jobs is among the top reasons why new users will come
on to the internet, besides e-mail. There are more than
18 million resumes floating online across the world.

THE TWO KINDS OF ERECRUITMENT THAT AN

ORGANISATION CAN USE IS
Job portals posting the position with the job description
and the job specification on the job portal and also searching
for the suitable resumes posted on the site corresponding to
the opening in the organisation.
Creating a complete online recruitment/application section in
the companies own website. - Companies have added an
application system to its website, where the passive job
seekers can submit their resumes into the database of the
organisation for consideration in future, as and when the
roles become available.

SELECTION
According to Thomas stone Selection is the process of
differentiating between applicants in order to identify and
hire those with a greater likelihood of success on the jobs.
In simple words
It is the functions performed by the management of
selecting the right employees .After identifying the
sources of human resources, searching for prospective
employees and stimulating them to apply for jobs in an
organization .

The objective of the selection decision is to choose the

individual who can most successfully perform the job from
the pool of qualified candidates.

SELECTION PROCESS FLOWCHART

Job analysis
Recruitment
Application form
Written examination
Group Discussion
interview
Reference checks
Line managers decision

Medical examination

DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN RECRUITMENT AND

SELECTION
Recruitment

Selection

1.It the process of searching

1.It Involves the series of

the candidates for employment

steps by which the candidates

and stimulating them to apply

are screened for choosing the

for jobs in the organization.

most suitable persons for

2.The basic purpose of

vacant posts.

recruitments is to create a

2.The basic purpose of

talent pool of candidates to

selection process is to choose

enable the selection of best

the right candidate to fill the

candidates for the

various positions in the

organization, by attracting

organization.

more and more employees to

apply in the organization.

3. Recruitment is a

3.Selection is a negative

positive process i.e.

process as it involves

encouraging more and

rejection of the unsuitable

more employees to

candidates.

apply

4 .Selection is concerned

4.Recruitment is

with selecting the most

concerned with tapping

suitable candidate through

the sources of human

various interviews and tests.

resources.

5. Selection results in a

5 .There is no contract
of recruitment
established in
recruitment

contract of service between

the employer and the
selected employee.

IMPORTANCE OF RECRUITMENT
AND SELECTION

Helps to get a proper candidate.

Help to increase success rate or individual &
organization.
Help to reduce the probability of turnover
Helps to get organizations legal and social obligations.
Helps to increase organization and individual
effectiveness.