Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Recruiting Methods

By Jane Clements


With hard competition in the job market, it may not be very simple any more to land the job that a person is looking for. Likewise, with so many persons to choose from, companies have a lot to sort through just to find out the individual that they are searching for.

Having this in mind, various recruiting techniques have been created to benefit both workers and employers. These include a variety of ways to discover the perfect persons to get the job completed. It is typically divided into two categories, internal recruitment and external recruitment.

Internal recruitment enables the organization to fill vacant slots with their current workers. This is a cost effective and quick method and allows for career development for existing employees.

External recruitment uses people from outside of the company to complete in job vacancies. It allows companies to from a broader pool of candidates with extensive experience appropriate to the vacant position.

Some of the techniques in which external recruitment is conducted are the following:

1. Worker Referral/Word-of-Mouth

It focuses on recommendation of qualified individuals from current employees.

2. Contract Staffing

This technique enables companies to look candidates from Human Resource outsourcing firms.

3. Recruitment through Advertisements

Usually, news paper ads and classifieds are the go to methods for recruitment both for employees and employers. It is still useful today but a few improvements have sprung up since the advent of the internet. These days, job advertisements can be ported online. There are various classifieds websites, project sites, and also company connected websites that allow commercials.

4. Head Hunting

This process allows a more particular and focused method to recruitment. An agent is frequently employed to execute this procedure. It is generally reserved for vacancies for key positions and senior management roles in the company.

5. Campus Method

Sometimes, companies scout new workers to fill job vacancies in universities and colleges. With the raw skill and new concepts that students potentially have and can provide to the company, recruitment agents are usually sent to schools to discover qualified individuals.

6. Recruitment by Job Centers

Recruitment businesses are extremely helpful in supplying highly qualified and well-experienced individuals for companies that need to fill in vacant job positions. Job centers are often anchored on specific hr requirements by their clients.

These service providers supply shortlist persons that are fit and competent for the job through their extensive candidate registry.

Aside from these techniques, recruitment websites and recruitment business are also accessible on the net. These websites work similarly to Job Centers albeit, they operate from the cloud. These websites perform the job of narrowing down candidates and then introducing their client companies with the shortlist of qualified individuals. Furthermore, these sites also enable job hunters to post their C.V.'s making it easier for employees to locate them.




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