Steps of recruitment process according to business jargon,
- Recruitment planning
- Strategy development
- Searching
- Screening
- Evaluation and control
Recruitment planning.
Recruitment planning is the first step of the process. structured recruitment plan is mandatory to attract potential candidates from a pool of candidates. The potential candidates should be qualified, experienced, with a capability take the responsibilities to achieve the objectives of the organization. Under the planning process there are many steps to be fulfilled as,
Job analysis,
Job description,
Job specification,
Job evaluation.
Strategy development.
strategy is prepared for hiring the resources. After complete the preparation of job description and job specification, the next step is decide which strategy to adopt for recruiting the potential candidates for the organization.
while preparing a recruitment strategy, the HR team considers the following points.
Make or buy employees,
Types of recruitment,
Geographical area,
Recruitment sources.
Strategy development is a long process but the below steps involve to developing an effective strategy to the organization.
Setting up a board team,
Analyzing HR strategy,
Collection of available data,
Analyzing the collected data,
Setting the recruitment strategy.
Searching.
Searching is the process of recruitment where the resources are sourced depending upon the recruitment of the job. After the recruitment strategy is done, the searching of candidates will be initialized. the process consists of two steps.
Source activation
Selling
Then the source are broadly divide in to Internal sources and External sources.
Screening.
Searching integral part of recruitment process that helps in removing disqualified or irrelevant candidates which were received through sourcing. The screening process consist three steps as,
Reweaving of resumes and cover letters,
Conducting telephonic , video or face to face interweave,
Identifying the top candidates.
Evaluation and controlling.
The effectiveness and the validity of the process and methods are assessed recruitment is a costly process, hence it is important that the performance of recruitment process is thoroughly evaluated.
Theses incurred cost can be evaluated as follows,
Salaries to the recruitment,
Advertisement cost and other costs that incurred to the recruitment method,
Administrative expenses and recruitment overheads,
Overtime and outstanding cost while the vacancy remain unfilled,
Cost incurred in recruiting suitable candidates for the final selection process,
Time spending by the managers and the professionals in preparing job description, job specifications and conducting the interview.
References.
Jargon.B. 2019
Business Jargons [Online]
Available at:
https://businessjargons.com/recruitment-process.html
[Accessed 28th January 2020]