PURPOSE AND IMPORTANCE OF RECRUITMENT

The following are the purpose and importance of recruitment in the organisation.

• Determine the present and future requirements of the organization on conjunction with its personnel-planning and job analysis activities.
•  Increase the pool of job candidates at minimum cost.
• Help increase the success rate of the selection process by reducing the number of visibly under qualified or overqualified job applicants.
• Help reduce the probability that job applicants, once recruited and selected, will leave the organization only after a short period of time.
• Meet the organization’s legal and social obligations regarding the composition of its work force.
• Begin identifying and preparing potential job applicants who will be appropriate candidates.
• Increase organizational and individual effectiveness in the short term and long term.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of various recruiting techniques and sources for all types of job applicants.

               Recruitment is a positive function in which publicity is given to the jobs available in the organization and interested candidates are encouraged to submit applications for the purpose of selection.

                 Recruitment represents the first contact that a company makes with potential employees. It is through recruitment that many individuals will come to know a company, and eventually decided whether they wish to work for it. A well-planned and well-managed recruiting effort will result in high quality applicants, whereas, a haphazard and piecemeal efforts will result in mediocre ones.