Importance Of Recruitment And Selection Strategies

Recruitment and Selection Strategies

Recruitment and selection strategies is a subcategory of management described as strategic management. According to Nicole Long of the Demand Media, wrote an article published in the Houston Chronicle’s small business section that stated, the recruitment and selection of the right employee for each position can lead to the reduced costs, thus leading to an improved bottom line. The recruitment and selection of the right talent for an organization is pivotal to its success and comes at significant cost. In an article published by Forbes Magazine (2013), US corporations shelled out approximately $72 billion dollars in their recruitment and selection efforts. This comes out to be on average about $3300 per recruit. With this kind of financial investments many companies have started to utilize third party recruitment companies. This practice is normally referred to as Recruitment Process Outsourcing according to Forbes Magazine (2013). After reviewing your organizational structure Mr.

Due to the structure of your organization we feel that you should go with a traditional interview method of face-to-face unless you seek an operational leadership talent in which you may want to broaden your pool. Prior to the interview, you must establish a minimum requirements checklist to narrow down candidates to partake in the process (University of California, Riverside, 2015). We will allow you to control that formula, but will advise that you include things such as a good driving record, no DUI’s, no at fault accidents in the last 5 years, and so on. This will help with this process as well as operational cost as your organization must insure these employees. Next, you should incorporate some form of testing whether it be practical (driving and parking) and also send them to have their vision check etc. We feel that if you utilize these tools you will be able to recruit a highly talented group of diverse