The Impact of recruitment & selection process in an organization

 I. INTRODUCTION  

An employee is an individual who works in an organization and employing a good employee will definitely impact positively to the organization. Recruitment and selection is the process of identifying the need for a job, defining the requirements of the position and the job holder, advertising the position and choosing the most appropriate person for the job. In addition, the process of Recruitment and Selection in Human Resource Management (HRM) refers to locating and encouraging the potential applicants so as to pick one who has relevant qualifications and skills to fit for a job role in the organization. Both these processes (Recruitment and selection) play a very significant role in finding the Best Fit of Employee for the organization.

    Concisely, it will be good to note that both activities, (Recruitment and Selection) are integrated to each other because as soon as recruitment stops, the selection process begins immediately and immensely.Thus, in order to employ the best suitable candidates and avoid fallacious conclusions, most HR practitioners employ the use of recruitment and selection process in order to achieve the best optimum result. According to B. Claydon the recruitment and selection process is focusing on identifying, attracting and selecting the right person into the right job that will meet the organizational HR requirements. The researcher would want to point out that an effective recruitment achieves the following:

i. Fulfills the requirements of a job.

ii. Ensures that organizations continue to maintain its commitment to providing equal opportunity to employees and

iii. Will let you hire the best possible candidates for the organization. If therefore the goals of an organization in hiring the best candidate will be achieved, it would have to be attained through the process of Recruitment and Selection. 

2. WHEN TO RECRUIT AND SELECT PEOPLE?  

The primary aim of a recruitment and selection policy is to ensure a transparent and fair hiring process that can assist the HR personnel to select the right candidate on the basis of merit and relevance with the job. There are five common reasons why the management need to recruit new employees as follows: 

i. If the business is growing. 

ii. When organization is changing job roles. 

iii. When an organization wants to fill up an available position. 

iv. When a staff is leaving the organization. v. When the organization is promoting existing staff. 

3. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION  

i. Recruitment is the process of finding candidates for the vacant position and encouraging them to apply for it while selection is choosing the best candidate from the pool of applicants and offering them the job.

ii. Recruitment establishes contact between employers and applicants while selection is a process of picking up competent and suitable employees.

iii. Recruitment encourages a large number of Candidates for a job while selection attempts at rejecting unsuitable candidates.

iv. Recruitment is a simple process while selection is a complicated process.

v. Recruitment is a positive approach while selection is a negative approach.

vi. Recruitment proceeds selection while selection follows recruitment.

vii. Recruitment is an economical method while selection is an expensive method.

viii. Recruitment requires less time while selection requires more time. 

4. IMPORTANCE OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCESS  

    The more effectively an organization recruit and select candidates, the more likely they are to hire and retain satisfied employees. Effective recruitment means more than hiring the right person for the job because an efficient recruitment process can reduce cost, enhance a company's reputation both from market and candidate perspective and ensure that the very best talent is identified, engaged and brought into the bottom-line business outcomes, such as productivity and financial performance. 

    A good recruiting and selection processes will inevitably lead to better company results because the quality of products and services will improve when the best employees are hired and retained. An effective recruitment and selection policy not only fulfills the requirements of a job but also ensures that an organization or company will continue to maintain its commitment to providing equal opportunity to employees and adhering to such a policy will let an organization or company hire the best possible candidates. 

Below are some important factors why recruitment and selection is important:  

i. Recruiting the right people for the right job is essential for the growth of every company.  

ii. Recruitment and selection guides on hiring those candidates whose skills and experience matches with the job roles required for the job and it also paves way for Merit-Based hires. 

iii. When the right people are selected, the employee will produce productive results and stay with the organization longer hence having a low employee turnover.  

iv. Recruitment and selection saves time unlike an overly long and difficult recruiting process which may cost qualified workers to quickly lose interest and move on to another company.  

v. Recruiting and selection process also saves you money because a process that quickly moves along takes less time and is more efficient; saving you money on the time it takes to fill a job. 

vi. The process helps to ensure that the hiring process is both fair and transparent. 

vii. Recruitment and selection provides consistency through the use of standardized processes because recruitment and selection processes that are not consistent give inconsistent results. Hence, financial success in a company or organization will improve when the best people are identified, hired, trained and retained. 

5. IMPACT OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCESS

 

Recruiting and selection process attracts and makes companies or organizations employ best employees and the most performance at the lowest and barest minimum cost.  

Thus, the more effectively and efficiently companies or organizations recruit and select workers, the better they hire and retain very good and satisfied employees and the more effective the company or organization selection system can influence bottom-line business outcomes, such as increased productivity, reduced cost of production, increased financial performance and optimum satisfied employees. Having a streamline, recruitment and selection process is very important because of the following reasons below:  

i. It saves time because an effective hiring process can save you time. A streamlined process, which is easy to navigate, fills open positions faster than a cumbersome, overly long hiring process because an opposite long and difficult recruiting and selection process may cost you qualified workers who quickly lose interest and move on to another company. 

ii. Good and efficient recruitment and selection process also saves you money because a process that quickly moves along takes less time and is more efficient; saving you money on the time it takes to fill a job.  

Iii. An established recruiting and selection process can help to ensure the hiring process is both fair and transparent and workers will therefore not face any type of discrimination and will increases their assurance that their personal information will be kept privately and secretly. These will inevitably lower the risk of legal actions against the company or organization.  

iv. An efficient recruitment and selection process ensures will make you hire the right worker more often than not: in line with the fourteenth (14) principle of scientific management by Henry Fayol.  

v. Save time on training: the right type of hiring and selection process also helps the company save time on training by hiring the right worker with the right skills and this will make the company not to waste time on training.  

vi. With the right recruitment and selection process the right person, with the right skills, will be ready to start work by requiring minimal training.  

vii. An Effective recruiting and selection processes leads to better company results.  

viii. Effective recruitment and selection process improves and increases productivity in a company or organization. 

 ix. Good and effective recruitment and selection process increases quality of products and service.  

x. Efficient and effective recruitment and selection process directly improves a company or organization performance when best employees are hired and retained. 

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