Recruitment and Selection Flashcards
Recruiting employees from outside the organization.
External Recruitment
- Recruiting employees already employed by the organization (promotion or transfer).
Internal recruitment
usually involve “career progression” positions.
Noncompetitive promotions
several internal applicants compete with one another (and sometimes with external applicants) for a limited number of higher positions.
Competitive promotions,
applicants are instructed to call rather than to apply in person or send résumés.
Respond but calling
- instruct applicants to apply in person rather than to call or send résumés.
Apply in person Ads
send their résumé to the company rather than call or apply in person.
send-resume ads
- instruct applicants to send their résumé to a box at the newspaper; neither the name nor the address of the company is provided.
Blind Box
Usage of televisions
• The potential advantage to using electronic media for recruitment is that, according to a 2013 study by the Radio Advertising Bureau, Americans spend 3.7 hours per day watching TV and 2.3 hours a day listening to the radio.
Electronic Media
A job fair held on campus in which students can “tour” a company online, ask questions of recruiters, and electronically send résumés.
Virtual job fair
often also called headhunters, that specialize in placing applicants in high-paying jobs.
Executive search firms
- An organization that specializes in finding jobs for applicants and finding applicants for organizations looking for employees.
Employment agency
- An employment service operated by a state or local government, designed to match applicants with job openings.
Public Employment Agencies
• A method of recruitment in which a current employee refers a friend or family member for a job
Employee Referrals
A method of recruitment in which an organization sends out
Direct mail
- are traditional employee referral programs and networking on steroids.
Social Media