Recruitment and Selection

In every organization, employee recruitment and selection play an important role in human resource management. Recruitment and selection is the process of attracting individuals on a timely basis, in sufficient numbers and with appropriate qualifications (Walker 2009). It has been argued that recruitment and selection are activities that are particularly prone to be affected by the changes impacting on a company and in particular economic cycles of boom and recession which can encourage changing requirements and approaches (Wright and Storey 1994). Finding the right employees for any organization requires an intricate combination of systems working in tandem. You need effective systems to first attract a suitable and substantial pool of applicants. You need to screen and select the most appropriate candidates, and ultimately you need to convince those selected to accept the job offer (Barber 1998). This states that there should be an effective system and a process until an employee is