Selection and Recruitment

Question 1

What is recruitment?

Answer 1

Attracting and soliciting potential candidates to be employees - Barber (1998)

Question 2

What is selection?

Answer 2

Selecting the best suitable candidates to be potential employees

Question 3

Why is recruitment and selection important?

Answer 3

“strategy begins with the people that you hire”

. recruitment activities should increase probability of the right people applying and then accepting any job offer . ‘most critical human resource function for organisational survival or success’

Question 4

What is the recruitment process?

Answer 4

1. Analysing the job
2. Writing the JD and PS
3. Deciding the recruitment method
4. Deciding the application method
5. Marketing the Job

Question 5

What is involved with job analysis?

Answer 5

. Work oriented
	WHAT work is done
	Tasks & job duties
	Job description
. Worker/attribute oriented
	The ATTRIBUTES needed to do the work
	KSAOs(knowledge skills, abilities, other) needed
	Person specification