What is the purpose of recruitment? What are the main elements or steps of a recruitment process?

What are the main methods of internal recruitment and the pros and cons of this approach?

What are the main methods of external recruitment and the pros and cons of this approach?

Which internal or external recruiting methods appear to disadvantage women and how?

Identify two ways you would measure the success of recruiting efforts. Why did you choose these methods?

What are the arguments for and against mandating diversity in recruiting campaigns?

 

What is the purpose of recruitment?

The purpose of recruitment is to choose the best applicant to fill in the staff needed in an organization.

What are the main elements or steps of a recruitment process?

The steps are:

Identify the jobs vacancy,

analyze the job requirements, posting of job hirings, review applications, screening applicants and hiring of the most suited candidate for the job

What are the main methods of internal recruitment and the pros and cons of this approach?

The main methods of internal recruitment are job posting internally, examination and interview for employee's re assignment or transfer and promotion. The pros of internal recruitment are

1. The employee to be chosen for the vacancy has already adjusted himself or herself in the company culture and policies thus it has an effect with the employee retention and person-fit culture.

2. Job posting is not costly since it is internal a memorandum will do to inform all the interested applicants to apply. There is no need to pay or make use of platform in posting job vacancies.

3. This create opportunity for employees to apply if they are interested on the job.

4. Promotion and re assignment or transfer makes an employee motivated.

5.Supervisors may recommend possible candidate for the job.

The cons are:

1. The recruitment needs to hire another person for the vacated job of the internal hired employee.

2. Recommendation of supervisor may be of bias.

3. For promotion, longer training for internal hired employees is needed.

What are the main methods of internal recruitment and the props and cons of this approach?

The methods of external recruitment are:

1. Job posting thru job boards, company website, job fairs, referrals, social media, print ads or television.

2. Assessment of applicants thru examination and interviews

The pros are

1. Larger number of reach for possible applicants.

2. More talent pooling

3. Better competition.

4. Experienced candidates for the job

The cons are

1. Time consuming

2. Costly

3. Higher risk for positions that post greater risk in terms of confidentiality and security information

Which internal or external recruiting methods appear to disadvantage women and how?

I think there is no recruiting methods that appear disadvantageous to women. It is not the method but the requirements and the discrimination on the hiring process that posts disadvantage to women.

Identify two ways you would measure the success of recruiting efforts. Why did you choose these methods?

The two ways I would measure the success of recruiting efforts are:

1. The low attrition rate meaning the person you hired stays in the company in the long term.

2. The good performance evaluation on the selected applicants. It shows you hired people who are really competent for the job.

What are the arguments for and against mandating diversity in recruiting campaigns?

The issues that arise for diversity in recruiting campaigns are

Cultural differences

Gender equality

Age discrimination

Personality and individual behaviour

These if not addressed post risk on performance of the job.