IOP L4

• Internet is the fastest and growing source of recruitment
• Recruitment


  A process of attracting people with the right qualifications to apply and occupy a vacant position in an organization
• Utilization of Career Ladders

  Formally progress staff employee to fill a higher job responsibility
• Types of Recruitment

  • External recruiting or sourcing applicants from outside the company
  • Internal sourcing inside the company
• Social Media is increasingly used in recruitment and job searching
• Supervisor recommendations


  Made because they know who to select as they have the knowledge of one’s potential
• Personnel Psychology


  Responsible for fair assessment of the ability of all applicants and the hiring of qualified applicants. It also involves in deciding which jobs people should be assigned to after they are hired; the branch of industrial psychology that deals with the recruitment, selection, training, appraisals, and counseling of employees
• Ann M. De Leon, MA, CHRA: 'Lecturer Industrial Psychology'
• Traditional External Recruitment Methods

  • Send-resume Ads
  • Blind box
  • Campus recruiters and school job fair
• External Recruitment Methods

  • Virtual job fair
  • Point of Purchase (POP)
  • Outside recruiters/Private employment agencies
  • Executive search firms or Headhunters
  • Public employment agencies
  • Employee Referrals
  • Direct Mail
  • Internet
  • Job Fairs
  • Special Recruit Populations
• Today, some organizations use blogging or vlogging for more job offers and opportunities as well as for the applicants to get information about the company
• Related terms to Recruitment

  • Staffing
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Placement
  • Sourcing
• Topics to be discussed

  • External
  • Internal
  • Selection Methods
  • Pre-Employment Requirements
  • Contract Personnel Psychology
• HRM: Employee Recruitment & Selection
• Career Development System


  A pool of talented employees to enhance their career satisfaction to provide increased promotional avenues
• Topics to be discussed

  • Recruitment
  • Selection
• External Recruitment Methods

  • Media Advertisements
  • Traditional methods
  • Campus recruiters and school job fair
• Illegal Recruitment: ART 34. Prohibited Practices
• Job Fairs


  Method of gathering several employers in one location so that many applicants can obtain information at one time
• Common Selection Methods

  • Résumé Screening - process of ascertaining that the résumé has a discussion of the minimum requirements of the job
  • Writing Cover Letter and Creating Résumé Cover Letter - A letter that accompanies a resume or job application
• Selection

  1. Process of identifying the best talent who fits the target role and the organization; predicting how a candidate will perform on the job

  2. Tail end of the recruitment process; process of separating the selected from the rejected applicants
• ART 13: Recruitment and placement" refers to any act of canvassing, enlisting, contracting, transporting, utilizing, hiring or procuring workers, and includes referrals, contract services, promising or advertising for employment, locally or abroad, whether for profit or not: Provided, That any person or entity which, in any manner, offers or promises for a fee, employment to two or more persons shall be deemed engaged in recruitment and placement
• Factors affecting Recruitment

  • The number of applicants each recruitment source yields
  • The cost of the recruitment campaign
  • The number of qualified applicants
  • The number of minorities and women who applied and got hired
  • The number of successful employees generated by each recruitment source
• Factors affecting Selection

  • Role in the organization
  • Level of the position
  • Special requirements and conditions - group dynamics, schedule, location...
• Most important aspects of a Job

  • Hiring period (date of application)
  • Contact information of recruiting party (phone number, email, or office address)
• Recruitment Advertisements

  1. Realistic Job Preview (RJP) - method of recruitment where job applicants are informed of both positive and negative aspects of the job

  2. Expectation-Lowering Procedure (ELP) - lowers an applicant's expectations about work
• Special Recruit Populations


  Organizations making special efforts to recruit underrepresented groups such as women and minorities
• Illegal Recruitment: ART 39. Penalties
• Labor Code of the Philippines
• Recruiting "Passive" Applicants


  Method of building a relationship with an organization that has members with hidden talents and convincing them to work with the company
• Essentials of a Job


  • Company/Nature of Business
  • Job Title
  • Tasks
  • Work Schedule & Location
  • Salary Range
  • Employment Contract
• Biodata


  Information about a person's background, including their education, qualifications, and work experience
• Cover Letter

  • A letter that accompanies a resume or job application
  • Tells an employer that you are applying for a job and enclosing your resume
  • Should not be longer than one page
• Selection of employment test

  Based on job analysis (content validity), predicts work-related behavior (criterion validity), measures the construct it purports to measure (construct validity)
• Effective employee selection tests

  • Valid
  • Reduce the chance of a legal challenge
  • Cost-effective
• Establishing the usefulness of a selection device

  • Taylor-Russell Tables
  • Proportion of Correct Decisions
• Assessment Tests


  The objective is to identify a suitable candidate for the role through testing (intelligence tests, psychological tests, and job-related aptitude tests)
• Résumé Screening


  Process of ascertaining that the résumé has a discussion of the minimum requirements of the job
• Test will reduce the chance of legal challenge if

  Their consent appears to be job related (face validity), the questions don’t invade their privacy, and adverse impact is minimized
• Four-Fifths Rule states that the selection ratio of a minority group should be at least four-fifths (80%) of the selection ratio of the majority group