Recruitment and Selection

Recruitment and Selection is an important aspect of SHRM designed to make the best use of employee strengths to meet the organization’s strategic goals and objectives (Rees and French, 2010). While both functions are closely related, each of them requires a unique set of skills and expertise that HR staff members will have to fulfil in practice (Rees and French, 2010). Recruitment is the process of attracting individuals to fill a particular job role by adding value to the organization (Anderson, 2001). The reason for an organization to recruit new individuals would be if an existing employee leaves or during expansion of the organization.  Ideally recruitment will attract a large pool of individuals both qualified and unqualified for the job. A good recruitment procedure in a company will provide enough information for unqualified applicants to remove themselves from the pool (Kumari, 2012). Recruitment methods can be divided into Internal and External recruitment. Internal re