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Unit 5: Recruiting HR

Job Sites: These are operated by specialized firms and can contain thousands of vacancies. Notes
Companies pay to have their jobs listed on the sites, which are usually not linked to the agency.
Media Sites: Sites which may simply contain a copy of an advertisement appearing in the press,
but may include an external description of the vacancy and the company and provide a link to
the company's website.

Person Specification: A person specification also known as recruitment, job or personnel
specification is the essential element on which the selection procedure is based. It is the sum
total of education, training, experience, qualification a person has to perform the job assigned to
him.
Recruitment: The discovering of potential applicants for actual or anticipated organisational
vacancies.
Recruitment Techniques: Recruitment techniques are the means or media by which management
contacts prospective employees or provide necessary information or exchange ideas or stimulate
them to apply for jobs.
Temporary Employees: Employees are hired for a limited time to perform a specific job. They
are useful in meeting short-term demand of human resource.

5.14 Review Questions

1. What steps can be involved in hiring human resources in an organisation?
2. What are the various sources of recruitment? How can an organisation evaluate the worth
of these sources?
3. For recruiting diverse workforce, what criteria do you suggest to adopt?
4. What would be the process of forecasting the manpower in a financial institution?

5. How would you help a firm that wants to improve its campus hiring efforts?
6. Outline the legal, economic, social and political considerations in recruitment.
7. List the most important merits and demerits of various sources of recruitment.

8. What factors influence the degree to which a firm will engage in recruiting?
9 What specific factors will restrain managers' freedom to recruit and select a candidate of
their choice?

10. Discuss what key recruiting issues should be looked into by HR executives at a mid-sized
bank with locations in several cities. Give examples and be specific.
11. What should be considered in evaluating the recruiting efforts of a big departmental store
with over 30 branches in key metropolitan cities all over a country?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. (iv) 2. (iii)
3. (v) 4. (ii)
5. T 6. F

7. F 8. F
9. T 10. T

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