2.1.8 Human resources plan: recruitment methods Flashcards

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  1. Define recruitment.
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It is the process of attracting qualified and competent job applicants using a variety of advertising platforms

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  1. Describe the two types of recruitment that a business can use.
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  1. External
  • Involves filling job vacancies with people from outside the business
  1. Internal
  • Involves filling job vacancies from inside the business
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  1. Discuss two advantages and two disadvantages of internal and external recruitment.
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Internal recruitment

2 Advantages

  • No need for background checks
  • Applicants are already familiar with the business’s polices

2 Disadvantages

  • Improve their business objectives instead of improving the business
  • If an applicant is successful they may need to be replaced, which results external recruitment

Therefore, increased costs to do background checks

External recruitment

2 Advantages

  • More applicants to choose from
  • New ideas

2 Disadvantages

  • It costs to advertise with external agencies
  • More applicants more result in a more time-consuming process
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  1. Describe the recruitment method that you utilised in your business as part of the Online Social
    Enterprise Business (OSEB) project.
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External recruitment

  • Our employees are all new
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