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Unit 5: Recruiting HR

Employee Leasing: Hiring permanent employees of another company who possess certain Notes
specialized skills on lease basis to meet short-term requirements- although not popular in India.

5.7 Evaluation and Control

It includes:
1. Return rate of applications sent out
2. Number of suitable candidates for selection
3. Retention & performance of the candidate selected
4. Cost of the recruitment process

5. Time lapsed data
6. Comments on image projected.

5.8 Evaluation of Recruitment Methods

It includes:

1. Number of initial enquiries received which resulted in completed application forms.
2. Number of candidates at various stages of the recruitment & selection process, especially
short listed.

3. Number of candidates recruited.
4. Number of candidates retained in the organisation after six months.

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
5. The recruiting process begins with human resource planning and concludes with evaluation
of recruiting efforts.
6. Recruitment is a mere vacancy-filling function.
7. Employment exchanges are important sources of clerical and managerial personnel.
8. If a job opening to be filled is very attractive, most prospective candidates may turn
indifferent and do not even apply.
9. In practice, recruitment methods seem to vary according to job level and skill.
10. The basic purpose of recruiting is to develop a group of potentially qualified people.

11. Government politics often come in the way of recruiting people.
12. Modern employees look for a satisfying career in place of 'just a job'.
13. A search firm is a government agency that maintains a computerised list of qualified
applicants.
14. Hiring costs could go up substantially when a firm hires candidates from within.
15. Temporary Employees are those Employees who are hired for a limited time to perform
a specific job.

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