Recruitment and Selection Strategies for Modern Workforce

Figure 1-Recruitment and Selection Strategy for Modern Workforce

Due to the increasing of number of people globally looking for jobs, the recruitment process has more completion in nowadays organizations. Therefore, finding the best candidates for the open positions has become much more difficult tasks to the HR Team. With the help of the modern Technology it becomes easier to find candidates as per the organization’s requirement. Taking the time to develop an effective recruiting strategy can result in a better pool of candidates, a shorter interview process, and ultimately it cause for less employee turnover too.

‘Modern recruiter is one who is targeted, builds relationships and knows how to not only find candidates but also get them to respond!”
                                                                                                 – Stacy Donovan Zapar

➤ What is Recruitment & Selection Strategy?

Figure 2-Recruitment & Selection Strategy

Recruitment Strategies involve attracting, choosing and developing the right individual for all open positions, in other words it an action plan to identifying and developing the ideal candidates for the for different positions within an organization. This plan helps to recognize, and to attract high quality candidates to the organization. It can be implemented by an HR Manager, Recruitment company or an Consultant.

Selection is the next step of the recruitment, it provides the candidates with a better understanding whether they fit to the job role and the organization. At this stage the candidate is given the opportunity to provide insight into themselves beyond what was previously presented on their application form. But the employee selection process depend on the role you’re hiring for, your recruiting budget, the seniority of the position, available resources, and your organizational needs.

Figure 3-Example for Selection Strategy

➤ Types of Recruitment Strategies

➭ Internal Recruitment

Internal recruitment which can be a huge time saver as there isn’t a lengthened period of interviews or onboarding. It is an easiest method of selecting the candidates from internal staff of the organization.

➭ External Recruitment

This can take a long period to attract the best talents to the company, But this method can bring new ideas, fresh approaches and new energy to the organization. This is the most common method which used by the companies nowadays.

➭ Social Media

This is the most common and fastest way to hire new employees in modern world. It has become one of the most important strategy that use by the organizations.  Using the right platform with the right content will helps to attract new talents quickly.

➭ Direct Advertising

This is also another strategy used by the organization to hire new employees. This is the method use to advertise in papers, magazines, trade journals and even in the notice boards also. But, with the innovation of the technology this method is not that much popular in these days.

➭ Recruitment agencies

Modern organizations use to outsource the recruitment to a third party, If you are struggling with finding the right kind of recruit or need someone with very specific skills, agencies can handle these requests very specifically.

➭ Employee Referrals

This means getting existing staff to refer people they know for the open vacancies. This is very cost effective method, Most of the organizations use to go for this method rather than go for the external recruitment methods,

➭ Build the Company’s Brand

By maintaining a positive brand image and reputation, more candidate may be eager to apply for open positions and respond to outreach. Build the company's reputation by ensuring it has consistently strong reviews on social media and hiring websites

➤ Why Recruitment and Selection Strategies Important?

Implementing an effective recruitment and selection strategy can help to find qualified and the best candidates for the open position. Specially in modern world with the new technology always the candidates use to search for new opportunities, So having a strong recruitment strategy can lead to

•       Attract best candidates
•       Improving productivity
•       Cost Saving
•       Quicker position filling
•       Lager talent pool

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'The vision of any organization is the starting point for building a productive team. Strategic recruitment and selection starts at the vision and works with management in order to build a hard working, innovative, well-structured business by employing the right people. HR practices must be coherent with an organizations strategy in order to achieve objectives' (Richardson & Thompson, 1999, p.10).

Conclusion 

The employee recruitment and selection process is vary from organization to organization  as per their recruitment budget, organizational culture, policies and procedures. Only thing is, we need to find new selection methods that are reliable, predictive and best suited for the roles that we need to hire, As well as always we need to come up with innovative ideas, new strategies to attract best talents that suits for the organization to achieve goals and objectives.

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