2.1.8 Human resources plan: recruitment methods

Question 1

1. Define recruitment.

Answer 1

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

Question 2

2. Describe the two types of recruitment that a business can use.

Answer 2

1. External

• Involves filling job vacancies with people from outside the business

2. Internal

• Involves filling job vacancies from inside the business

Question 3

3. Discuss two advantages and two disadvantages of internal and external recruitment.

Answer 3

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

Question 4

4. Describe the recruitment method that you utilised in your business as part of the Online Social
   Enterprise Business (OSEB) project.

Answer 4

External recruitment

• Our employees are all new