INTRO TO RECSEL

• Recruit - to find suitable people and get them to join a company, an organization, the armed forces, etc.
• Recruit - to form or build by getting people to join
• Recruit - to persuade (someone) to join you in some activity or to help you
• Recruitment - organizational activities that influence the number and type of individuals who apply for a position
• Recruitment - the process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate (from within or outside of an organization) for a job opening, in a timely and cost effective manner
• Recruitment Strategic Aspects:

  • Who should recruit?
  • Internal or external recruitment?
  • Labor markets
  • Branding
• Who should recruit?

  • RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)
  • Full-time in-house; generalists; managers; supervisors
• Branding - why "we are a desirable place to work"
• Select - to choose (someone or something) from a group
• Select - to choose (as by fitness or excellence) from a number or group
• Selection - the process of choosing individuals with relevant qualifications to fill existing or protected job openings
• Selection - the process of interviewing and evaluating candidates for a specific job and selecting an individual for employment based on certain criteria
• Selection - process of collecting and evaluating information about an individual in order to extend an offer of employment for a new employee or different position for a current employee performed under legal and environmental constraints and addresses the future interest of the organization and the individual
• Staffing - the process of acquiring, deploying, and retraining a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization's effectiveness
• Nature of Staffing:

  • Staffing builds the organization's workforce
  • workforce - human capital
• Nature of Staffing - an effective staffing process helps you find and retain strong candidates who are a good fit for your organization
• Nature of Staffing - successful programs establish a continuous system of evaluating and developing your relationship with employees and selecting for qualities that are most effective
• Nature of Staffing - the process of staffing can help you find great employees and maintain strong relationships with them
• Staffing vs Recruiting: Recruitment refers to the process of finding talented job candidates, conducting an interview process, and negotiating with a candidate to hire them
• Staffing vs Recruiting: Staffing includes recruitment plus many of the things that come after it, such as onboarding, training, and scheduling
• Staffing: Acquisition - external staffing systems
• Staffing: Deployment - placement of new hires
• Staffing: Retention - managing the inevitable flow of employees out of the organization
• Carolyn Clark - “It all starts and ends with people. They are the heart, the soul and the spirit of our company… From a human resources perspective, it starts with selecting the best. The most important decision that we make within our company is who we hire.”
• Teresa Lister - “If we talk about people as expendable cogs who are responsible to manage their own careers then we cannot be surprised when they leave for other opportunities. If the strategy is to buy what you need when you need it, then everyone potentially ends up in the contingent workforce—and procurement replaces human resources. You lose the benefits of the cohesiveness, coherence and connectivity that come from a resident workforce.”
• Richard Fairbank - “At most companies, people spend 2% of their time recruiting and 75% managing their recruiting mistakes”
• Gen. Colin Powell - “Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”
• Staffing:

  • It is a process or system, not an event
  • Quantity (numbers) and quality (types) of people
  • Organizational effectiveness