CHAPTER 1: HUMAN RESOURCE RECRUITING AND STAFFING

Thursday, 25 October, 2012

Recruiting process is one of the processes in Human Resource Management. So, what is meant by recruitment? Based on Giri (2008), recruitment can be defined as the process of attracting applicant and the right candidate will be chosen to be proceeding to the next stage that we called as interview which is in selection process. 

The recruitment processes are divided into internal and external recruitment and if the organization wants to save their budget, they would better hiring people from inside rather than outside. In the Human Resource Information Systems’ s book written by Kavanagh et al ( 2011), it mentions about the recruitment objective that need to be emphasized when using the online recruitment. There are:

• Cost of the filling job opening – when used the online recruitment, it will save your budget rather than using traditional method but the number of applicant will become increase because it is much easier to use online recruitment.

• Speed of filling job vacancy –any of the job vacancy will be shown in the company’s website. So, the candidate will only need to click on the website and fill in the form and send the resume. Thus, it makes the process of fulfilling the job vacancy becomes much easier.

• Psychological Contract fulfillment, Employee Satisfaction, and retention rates – From Argyris (1960), psychological contract (PS) looks like mutual respect between two parties (workers and employer). It is related to each other because when PS is positive, they will be satisfied to their work and tend to be loyal to that respective company.

• Quantity, Quality, and Diversity of Applicants – online recruitment have the tendency to get the higher number of applicants and the recruiter must screen which candidate have the qualification and skills that is needed by the organization. Other than that, the diversity in terms of the gender, age, and region will be found in the list of the applicants. 

So, the information I learnt and gained about this will surely be useful for me especially when I work for big companies like PETRONAS, IRDA and others. Nowadays, everything is said to be at the end of your fingertips and the technologies are even spreading to the rural areas. The knowledge about this must be owned by all HR professional including the students who wish to become an HR professional in the future (391 words).

References

• Argyris, C.(1960).Understanding organization behavior. Homewood, II : The Dorsey. Press, Inc. 

• Kavanagh, M.J, Thite Mohan, and Johnson, R D (2012). Human Resource Information System: Sage Publication Ltd. United Kingdom.