Is a process of –

 Searching for Prospective employees

&

 Stimulating them to apply for jobs

 Internal :
 Sources within an organizational
pursuit.

 External
 Sources outside organizational
pursuits.
 Present Permanent Employees

 Present Temporary or Casual

Employees

 Retrenched or Retired Employees

 Dependants of Deceased, Disabled,

Retired & Present employees
 Campus • Professional
Recruitment Associations

 Private • Data banks

Employment
Agencies / • Casual Applicants
Consultants
• Similar organizations
 Public Employment
Exchanges
• Trade Unions
 Less costly
 Already oriented to
 Perpetuates old
 Organisations have
concept of doing
better knowledge things
about candidates  Politics
 Good performance  Current work may
is rewarded suffer
 Morale problem
 Fresh blood  May lead to low
 Compliance with morale and
reservation policy motivation
becomes easy  Costly
 Scope for  Adjustment takes
resentment, long time
jealousies and
heartburn are
avoided
 Evaluation of Methods
 Initial enquiries
 Candidates at various stages of R
& S process
 Retained
 External Factors
 Supply and demand
 Unemployment rate Recruitment policy
 Labour market  HRP
 Political and social  Size of the firm
factors
 Cost
 Son of the soil
 Growth and
 Image
expansion
 Promotions & Transfers :
 Internal candidates are stimulated to work.

 Recommendation of the present employees

 Management contacts the outsiders recommended by present
employees

 Scouting :
 Send organization’s representative to various sources of
recruitment

 Advertising :
 (AIDA) attract Attention, develop Interest, create Desire,
instigate Action
 Overtime
 Employee leasing
 Temporary Employment
 Write a recruitment ad for a job you
may have held
 Explain where you would place this ad
 To improve its appeal
 To get qualified response
 Re-write the ad to appeal to
1. Older workers
2. Disabled people
 How would you go about finding such
candidates?