ABOUT THE RECRUITMENT

             Recruitment means to estimate the available vacancies and to make suitable arrangements for their selection and appointment. Recruitment is understood as the process of searching for and obtaining applicants for the jobs, from among whom the right people can be selected.

             A formal definition states, “It is the process of finding and attracting capable applicants for the employment. The process begins when new recruits are sought and ends when their applicants are submitted. The result is a pool of applicants from which new employees are selected”. In this, the available vacancies are given wide publicity and suitable candidates are encouraged to submit applications so as to have a pool of eligible candidates for scientific selection.

          In recruitment, information is collected from interested candidates. For this different source such as newspaper advertisement, employment exchanges, internal promotion, etc. are used.

           In the recruitment, a pool of eligible and interested candidates is created for selection of most suitable candidates. Recruitment represents the first contact that a company makes with potential employees.

Definition of Recruitment:

According to EDWIN FLIPPO,

                             ”Recruitment is the process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the organization.”

Need for Recruitment:

The need for recruitment may be due to the following reasons / situation:

• Vacancies due to promotions, transfer, retirement, termination, permanent disability, death and labour turnover.
• Creation of new vacancies due to the growth, expansion and diversification of business activities of an enterprise. In addition, new vacancies are possible due to job specification.

Objectives of Recruitment:

Recruitment fulfils the following objectives.

• It reviews the list of objectives of the company and tries to achieve them by promoting the company in the minds of public.
• It forecasts how many people will be required in the company.
• It enables the company to advertise itself and attract talented people.
• It provides different opportunities to procure human resource.