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Recruitment Flashcards

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What is the basic purpose of recruitment

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Create a pool of qualified persons from whom selection maybe made

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What is the meaning of recruitment?

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Recruitment is the process of searching for and identifying prospective employees and encouraging them to apply for jobs in the enterprise. It involves seeking and attracting adequately qualified people from which suitable candidates may be selected.

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Define recruitment

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Recruitment is the development and maintenance of adequate manpower resources. It involves creation of a pool of available labor force upon which organization can draw when it needs additional employees - DALES BEACH

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Recruitment is a positive process. JUSTIFY

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In the sense that it aims at creating a large pool of candidates from which appropriate employees r selected. Moreover, recruited people are more in number than selected people

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Steps involved in recruitment

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  1. Identifying different sources of labor supply
  2. Assessing the suitability of these sources of labor
  3. Choosing the most appropriate source
  4. Encouraging candidates to apply for jobs in the organization.
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Name 4 methods of direct recruitment

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Field recruitment
Walk in interviews
Tele recruitment
Posters and billboards

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Explain FIELD RECRUITMENT

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  1. Representatives of company visit management and technical institutes
  2. They take on the spot tests and interviews and short list candidates for appointment
  3. Convenient, inexpensive
  4. requires cooperation of heads of technical institutes
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Explain WALK IN INTERVIEWS

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  1. candidates seeking jobs are informed of time and place where interview is to be held
  2. may be in a office, company or hotel
  3. candidates come to the place with their resume, certificate
  4. on spot interviews r held and selection is made
  5. Call centres in India
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Explain TELE - RECRUITMENT

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  1. A list of potential candidates is prepared from directories of professional associations, etc.
  2. List contains name, address, telephone no of candidates
  3. Phone calls are made to it
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Explain POSTERS AND BILLBOARDS

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  1. Organization may put up posters and billboard outside its offices and at public paces to inform candidates abt job vacancies
  2. Some companies hold info seminars to attract candidates
  3. Company executives may be handed ‘talent scout cards’ for this purpose
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What is indirect source of recruitment

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It involves the use of a third party which serves as a link between job seekers and employers

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Indirect methods of recruitment

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  1. Advertisement through various media
  2. Public employment exchanges
  3. Placement agencies
  4. Professional associations
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What r internal sources of recruitment ?

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It means existing employees in the organization who r already working are shifted from one place to another in rank, responsibility and remuneration .

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Types of internal sources of recruitment

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  1. promotion
  2. demotion
  3. ex-employees
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Explain PROMOTION

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  1. Shifting of an employee from a lower post to a higher post
  2. Increase in pay, status, responsibility
  3. considered as rewards
  4. maybe made based either on merit or on seniority
  5. vertical movement of an employee
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Explain DEMOTION

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  1. It means shifting an employee from higher post to lower post
  2. done when an employee is unable to perform his duties properly
  3. reduction in pay, status, responsibility
  4. considered a serious penalty and so used in exceptional cases
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Explain EX-EMPLOYEES

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  1. Retired employees of organization may be recruited for temporary period to meet abnormally high rush of work
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Merits of internal recruitment ( list)

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  1. Employee morale
  2. Economical
  3. Familiarity
  4. Experienced staff
  5. Easy evaluation
  6. Upgrading
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Employee morale

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  1. Promotion helps boost motivation and moral of employees

2. when they r assured of higher positions, their loyalty and commitment to the firm increases

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Economical

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Cost incurred in ad agencies and screening candidates is avoided. no outside references r required

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Familiarity

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employees r already aware of policies rule and working conditions of the firm so they need not waste time in learning them

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Experienced staff

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Employees who r promoted or transferred are already experiences so then need not be provided with training

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Easy evaluation

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,Management can easily evaluate the performance using service records

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Upgrading

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When one employee is promoted , other persons are automatically upgraded

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Demerits of internal sources of training ( list)

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  1. Limited choice
  2. Inbreeding
  3. Inefficiency
  4. Incomplete source
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Limited choice

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  1. Restricts choice of management
  2. existing employees may not be suitable for higher positions.
  3. Competent and deserving candidates do not get opportunity
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Inbreeding

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When all higher positions are filled by promoting existing employees , new ideas and fresh thinking may not enter organization

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Inefficiency

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If inefficient employees use their influence to get promotions, efficiency of organization decreases

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Incomplete source

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Internal recruitment cannot fill all the vacancies . when a promotion occurs, vacancy arises at lower level for which external recruitment has to be made

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ADVERTISEMENTS

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  1. ads in newspapers and journals r the most widely used method of attracting candidates for all types of jobs
  2. requirement of job and terms and conditions of employment r given in the ad
  3. Candidate evaluate themselves against the requirements and send applications
  4. they bring in a large no. of candidates due to wider circulation of a national newspaper
  5. If organization does not want to reveal its identity, candidates can be asked to reply to a post box no
  6. however, flood of applications may create problems
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PLACEMENT AGENCIES

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  1. Private employment agencies can be engaged for recruiting staff
  2. these agencies advertise vacancies , receive applications, conduct interviews and short list candidates on behalf of the organization
  3. But they charge fee for these services
  4. Popular choice for recruiting technical and managerial personnel
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EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES

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  1. Employment exchanges run by Govt. is another source
  2. Anyone seeking employment can get himself registered with the exchange
  3. Employer notify vacancies to exchange which then supplies a list of candidates to fulfil required qualifications
  4. in this way, job seekers and givers r brought into contact
  5. Useful source for semi skilled and unskilled personnel
  6. no cost involved
  7. But records of exchanges r not up to date and referred candidates may not turn up.
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EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

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  1. Companies maintain close liaison with management and technical universities
  2. Brilliant students r spotted during their studies and offered jobs on the completion of their studies
  3. Representatives hold interviews in the institutions and select the qualified students
  4. Students passing out of IIT and IIM are selected every year for jobs .
  5. It is also known as campus recruitment suitable for engineers, computer experts and managers

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