Recruiting job candidates

Recruiting approaches

Internal approach

External approach

Importance of recruiting

Recruiting is a very important process because the more applicants you have the more selective you can be in your hiring.

From this perspective, it is crucial to pay attention to how an organization’s image is influenced by recruitment and selection processes.

Line and staff cooperation

Recruiting is a process in which line managers and the HR manager must work together.

HR manager must collect information such as job characteristics, specifications, and job values before starting recruiting. This can be more effective when working with line managers.

Some sources of candidates

Advertising;

Employment agencies and executive recruiter;

College recruiting and on-site visits;

Web-based recruitment;

Social networks.

Advertisement Two issues must be addressed:

1. Proper media: depends on the types of positions; local newspapers, industrial journals, professional journals, radio and television may be used for different types of positions.

2. Ad’s construction: A four-point guide has been proposed to construct advertisements.

A four-point guide for Ad’s construction

Attention: you must attract attention by adding visual effects and highlighting important points.

Interest: describe the nature of the job by highlighting important aspects of job from candidates’ points of view such as its location, salary, and interesting aspects of job.

Desire: create desire by amplifying the job’s interest factors such as career development, travel, or similar advantages.

Action: the ad should prompt action and invite people for next phases of recruiting process.

Examples of benefits that increase a job seeker's desire to work for your company

• Great pay or pay that exceeds the industry standard for that specific position• On-the-job skills training-list the skills the employee will learn• Pay raises when new skills are mastered• Tuition reimbursement• A company car• Free or low cost (to the employee) medical and dental insurance• A flexible work schedule• Better-than-average vacation incentives• Performance bonuses (more vacation, money, prizes, etc.)• Scheduled pay raises-list the time frame to the first raise• Opportunities for promotion• Free onsite cafeteria• Onsite gym• Onsite daycare• Opportunities to telecommute• A beautiful office

Job adverts checklist job title employer or recruitment agency/consultancy job base location succinct description of business/organization/division activity and market position and

aims to whom the position reports - or other indication of where the role is in the structure outline of job role and purpose - expressed in the 'second-person' (you, your, etc) indication of scale, size, responsibility, timescale, and territory of role outline of ideal candidate profile - expressed in 'second-person' indicate qualifications and experience required (which could be incorporated within

candidate profile) salary or salary guide whether the role is full-time or permanent or a short-term contract (if not implicitly clear

from elsewhere in the advert) other package details or guide (pension, car etc) explanation of recruitment process response and application instructions contact details as necessary, for example, address, phone, fax, email, etc. website address corporate branding

Employment agencies Some reasons when employment

agencies may be useful:

- your company doesn’t have its own HR department;

- it is difficult to generate a pool of qualified applicants;

- some positions must be filled quickly.

A sample list of Iranian employment agencies

http://www.irantalent.com/

Social network (networking)

A study carried out in the UK by Capital Consulting shows has found that fewer than one in five (18 per cent) of employees work in organizations which encourage them to recommend friends or acquaintances.

Pros & Cons Some argue that the candidates who come through referrals

have already been examined by an employee, they are usually a better fit with the company and the job and have a better understanding of the business.

With a ready-made network of workmates, they settle in quickly and tend to stay longer than employees who come to the business through external agencies. They are also more likely to perform well so as to not reflect badly on the one who recommended them.

Using social networking without an effective performance appraisal system may result in dysfunctional informal groups.