Recruitment & Selection

Recruitment

Recruitment• Recruitment means to estimate the available

vacancies and to make suitable arrangements for their selection and appointment

• Flippo’s definition: “It is a process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating and encouraging them to apply for jobs in an organization”

Purpose of recruitment

• Provides organization with a pool of qualified candidates

• The more qualified the pool the better the success rate in selection

• Can help the organization meet affirmative action goals

• Can increase organizational effectiveness

Recruitment Process

RECRUITMENT SOURCES

Internal RecruitmentMethodsTransfersPromotionsDemotionUpgradingRetired Employees

External RecruitmentMethodsGraduate ProgrammesMedia AdvertisementJob agencies / OutsourcingEmployment ExchangesLabour ContractorsEmployee ReferralsRecruitment open daysPersonal RecommendationInternships

Internal Recruitment• Internal recruitment is when a job vacancy is filled by

one of the employee from within the organization

• It helps in giving existing employees a good opportunity to advance in their careers in the organisation.

Internal Recruitment•Easier to assess applicants since more information is available

•Less costly and quicker than an external search •Improve employee morale and organization loyalty •Promoted employee is already familiar with organization policies, culture, etc

Advantages

Disadvantages• May not help turn company around

• Internal politics will occur

• Difficult to do with rapid growth

External Recruitment• External recruitment is a type of recruitment where

organizations rely on suitable applicants from outside the organization to fill a vacancy

• Methods of external recruitment include; headhunting, advertisements, data base search on job sites and contract staffing

• Provides new ideas / fresh perspectives

• Initiate a turnaround

• Hiring experienced employee can reduce training needed

• May bring new insights from other industries

Advantages

Disadvantages• Less information available on applicants

• Search takes longer and costs more

• Destroys incentive of present employees to strive for promotion

• Current organization members may fight new ideas

Selection

Selection• Selection is the process of picking up individuals (out

of the pool of job applicants) with requisite qualifications and competence to fill jobs in the organization

• Selection process starts where recruitment ends

Selection Process • PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW• SELECTION TEST• INTERVIEW• REFERENCE CHECK• SELECTION DECISION• PHYSICAL EXAMINATION• JOB OFFER• CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT• CONCLUDING THE SELECTION PROCESS• EVALUATION OF SELECTION PROGRAMME

Difference betweenRecruitment

• It is the process of identifying and encouraging prospective employees to apply for jobs

• It is more positive in its approach

Selection• It is concerned with

picking up the right candidates from a pool of applicants

• Selection on the other hand is negative in its application

Infosys

Infosys• Founded in the year 1981 in Pune by N. R. Narayana

Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora

• It is the third-largest India-based IT services company

• Second largest employer of H-1B visa professionals in the United States

Srikantan Moorthy• Senior Vice President and Group

Head of Human Resource Development (HRD) at Infosys

• Holds a degree in electronics engineering from Bangalore University, India.

• He has over 27 years of experience in field of technology, project and people management and customer interaction

Recruitment at Infosys

While recruitment, Infosys focuses on recruiting candidates who display a high degree of ‘LEARNBILITY

Qualities which Infosys looks PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE ANALYTICAL ABILITY TEAM WORK AND LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION INNOVATION SKILLS PRACTICAL APPROACH TO PROBLEM

SOLVING

Infosys recruitment has 2 stages

Written Test Personal Interview

Selection Process Of Infosys

Physical Ability Test

Written Test

Background Interview / Polygraph

Psychological Test

Senior Management

Review

Major Selection

Reasons for getting rejected at Infosys

• Poor Attitude • Appearance• Lack of research • Not having questions to ask• Not readily knowing the answers to interviewers'

questions

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