RECRUITMENT MEANING AND DEFINITION

RECRUITMENT MEANING AND DEFINITION

      Recruitment refers to the process of identifying, attracting, interviewing, selecting, hiring and on boarding employees. In other words, it involves everything from the identification of a staffing need to filling it.

Depending on the size of an organization, recruitment is the responsibility of a range of workers. Larger organizations may have entire teams of recruiters, while others only a single recruiter. In small outfits, the hiring manager may be responsible for recruiting. In addition, many organizations outsource recruiting to outside firms. Companies almost always recruit candidates for new positions via advertisements, job boards, social media sites, and others.

          In human resource management, “recruitment” is the process of finding and hiring the best and most qualified candidate for a job opening, in a timely and cost-effective manner. It can also be defined as the “process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating and encouraging them to apply for jobs in an organization.”

It is one whole process, with a full life cycle, that begins with identification of the needs of the company with respect to the job, and ends with the introduction of the employee to the organization.

       Once a determination of human resource requirement has been made, the recruitment and hiring process may begin. Recruitment is the gathering of applicants for specific positions. To recruit means to enlist, replenish or reinforce. It is a process of stimulating the applicants to apply for a job in a company. It brings together prospective employees and employer.

1. Dales S. Beach Writes, “Recruitment is the development and maintenance of adequate manpower resource. It involves the creation of a pool of available labour upon the organisation can depend when it needs additional employees.”

2. In the words of Ivancevich and Glueck, “Recruitment is that set of activities that an organisation uses attract job candidate who have the abilities and attitude needed to help the organisation achieve its objective.”

3. In the words of Dale Yoder, “Recruitment is a process to discover the source of manpower to meet the requirement of the staffing schedule and to employ effective measures for attracting that manpower in adequate numbers to facilitate effective selection of an efficient working force.”

4. In the words of DeCenzo and Robbins, “Recruitment is the discovering of potential candidate for actual or anticipated organisational vacancies.”