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PROF. HITESHWARI JADEJA

RECRUITMENT

What is recruitment?

Recruitment is the process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating and encouraging them to apply for jobs in an organization.

-Edwin Flippo

Features of recruitment

It is a positive act. It involves a series of planned

activities. It helps in developing applicant

pool. It represents the first contact

between the organization and the potential employees.

It intends to locate and reach out to potential applicants.

Objectives and Importance of recruitment

Determine the present and future requirements of the firm. Attract the people with multi-dimensional skills and

experiences. Increase the pool of candidates at minimum cost. Help increase the success rate of selection process. Increase organizational and individual effectiveness in the

short and long term. Meet the organization’s legal and social obligations

regarding the composition of its workforce.

Emphasis on “Learnability” in the Recruitment Policy of Infosys

Infosys look for qualities like superior academic records, technical skills and ingrained capacity for hardwork.

It concentrates on recruiting candidates who exhibit a high degree of “learnability”

Recruitment at HDFC

HDFC rarely recruits people laterally. Prefers recruiting people from

second tier business schools and not the top ones as they fit in better with HDFC’s work culture and goal of helping ordinary people.

Factors Influencing Recruitment

External Forces• Supply and

demand• Unemployment

rate• Labour market• Legal Provisions• Sons of soil

Recruitment

Internal Forces• HR policy• Recruitment Policy• HRP• Nature of Job• Size of the firm• Conventional

Wisdom

Pause and Ponder……

Think of a firm you want to submit job application. Which factors attract you towards the company?

Recruitment process

The recruitment process is concerned with the procedure for the identification and classification of the potential source of human resources supply and effectively utilising those sources.

The Multiple Recruitment Strategy of Tata Support Solutions

Direct walk-ins Referral walk-ins Consultant services Campus recruitments Recruitment advertising Internal Job Posting

Sources of recruitment

The Job Posting System: Wipro

Wipro has a popular and transparent job posting system- “Wings Within”, an intranet site to communicate all vacant job positions to the employees

Anti-poaching Techniques in corporates

The automotive giant EICHER has insured its top employees with LIC under the insurance scheme called ‘Key Man policy’.

According to this policy, the employee gets the sums only if he stays for an agreed duration.

Mahindra & Mahindra offers 50% of the employees’ bonus in form of FD.

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Recruitment Yield Pyramid

Offer Acceptance

Job Offer

Invited for Final Interview

Invited to Screening Interview

Initial Contacts

Offers/Acceptance (3:2)

Interview/Offers (4:3)

Screening/Invites (5:1)

Contacts/Screens (10:1)

20

30

40

200

2000

Recruitment practices in India

Existing employees Employee referrals Advertising Private employment agencies Internet recruiting

Employee Referrals: A New Horizon in Recruitment

Cisco hires 55 to 60 percent of employees through referrals.

In Infosys 40 percent of hiring is done laterally.

At TCS, hiring through employee referrals has increased by 175 percent in last two years.

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