Recruitment Flashcards
Resourcing
- planning to identify gaps, surpluses, poor utilisation and development
- forecasting future demands, internal/external supply
Loose Labour Market
Labour markets with an abidance of required labour
Tight Labour markets
Employment is high, pool of available workers is small
Recruitment
“generating a pool of candidates from which to select”
“organisations attract a pool of candidates from whom to select”
Recruitment activities
- Job specification
- Person specification
Job centre
+ free, quick, coverage
- unemployed/ uninterested candidates
Agencies
+ common, easy
- cost, control, suited to short-term gaps
Online recruitment
+ cost, speed, high applications
- overload, tech reilance
Selection
“assessing job applicants using one or variety of methods with purpose of finding suitable person”
“employers determine who from among those who submitted applications is to be offered a job”
Selecting
PRACTICABILITY
SENSITIVTY
RELIABILTY
VALIDITY
Application forms
+ comparable, predetermined structure
- duplicates
Interviews
+ common, face-to-face, reliable
- ‘like-me’, controversial
Testing
+ greater validity
- relevance?, bias/discrimination
