Overtime• Most commonly used method of meeting short-term fluctuations in work volume • Employer avoids recruitment, selection, and training costs • Employees gain from increased income
Trang 1Human Resource Management
Session 3
RECRUITMENT
Trang 2Alternatives to Recruitment
1 Outsourcing
2 Contingent Workers
3 Professional Employer Organizations
(PEO) - Employee Leasing
4 Overtime
Trang 3employees, temporary help agency
workers, and contract workers
Trang 43 Professional Employer Organizations -
Employee Leasing
• Company that leases employees to other
businesses
• When decision is made to use PEO, company
releases its employees who are then hired by
PEO
• With PEO, leasing company is employees’
legal employer
Trang 54 Overtime
• Most commonly used method of meeting short-term fluctuations
in work volume
• Employer avoids recruitment,
selection, and training costs
• Employees gain from increased income
• Potential problems
Trang 6Labour Market Conditions
• Demand for and supply of specific skills
• Labour market for many professional and technical positions is truly global
• May dictate recruitment strategy to be adopted
Trang 7Corporate Image
• A firm’s corporate image affects
recruitment
• Firms that have had adverse publicity
may find it more difficult to recruit good
people
• Converse also true
Trang 8Internal Environment of Recruitment
• HR Planning – it takes time to attract
prospective employees with the required
skills
• Promotion Policies – these can have a
significant impact on recruitment: are
positions to be filled from inside or outside
the organisation? Problems with respect to
‘relative ability’
Trang 9RECRUITMENT PROCESS External Environment Internal Environment
Human Resource Planning Alternatives to Recruitment
Employee Requisition
Internal Sources
Internal Methods
External Sources External Methods
Recruited Individuals
Trang 10Recruitment Process
1 Employee Requisition
• Recruitment begins when a manager initiates
employee requisition
• Document specifies job title, department, date
employee is needed for work, and other details
Trang 112 Recruitment Sources and Methods
• Recruitment sources: Place where qualified
individuals are found
• Recruitment methods: Means by which
potential employees can be attracted to firm
Recruitment Process (cont.)
Trang 12Internal Recruitment Methods
Trang 13Job Posting and Job Bidding
• Job Posting - Procedure to inform
employees that job openings exist
• Job Bidding - Permit individuals in
organization who believe they possess
required qualifications to apply for
posted job
Trang 14• Employee enlistment - Unique
form of employee referral where every employee becomes a
Trang 15External Recruitment Sources
1 High Schools and Vocational Schools
2 Community Colleges
3 Colleges and Universities
4 Competitors in the Labor Market
5 Former employees
6 Unemployed
7 Military Personnel
8 Self-employed Workers
Trang 161 High Schools and Vocational Schools
• Clerical and other entry-level employees
• Some companies work with schools
• Companies may loan employees to schools
Trang 172 Community Colleges
• Sensitive to specific employment needs in local labor market
• Graduate highly after students with
sought-marketable skills
Trang 183 Colleges and Universities
• Professional, technical, and management employees
• Placement directors, faculty, and administrators
Trang 206 Unemployed
• Qualified applicants become unemployed every day
• Companies go out of business
• Cut back operations
• Merge with other firms
Trang 217 Military Personnel
• Proven work history - Flexible, motivated, drug free
• Goal and team orientation
Trang 228 Self-Employed Workers
Good source of potential recruits They may
be ingenious and creative with expertise in the following areas:
– Technical
– Professional
– Administrative
Trang 23Traditional External Recruitment
Trang 24External Recruitment Methods
According to recent study the most popular external
recruitment methods were:
1 Newspaper and magazine advertisements: used by
89% of respondents – but declining due to internet Useful for filling local positions and enhancing
corporate brand in local market.
This method includes advertising in Professional and Trade Journals These can present problems:
publishing deadlines may cause delays between placing advert and its subsequent appearance in an
Trang 25External Recruitment Methods
2 Internet: used by 67% of participants taking part in
the survey Allows the penetration of new markets and develops a wider range of qualified applicants
• Perhaps biggest change in way that organizations recruit
• Revolutionized way companies recruit employees and job
seekers search and apply for jobs
Trang 26Employment Agencies –
Public and Private
• Organization that helps recruit employees and at same time aids individuals in attempts to locate jobs
• Private agencies (often called head-hunters ) –
Best known for recruiting white-collar employees
• Public agencies – Operated by each state, receive policy direction from U.S Employment Service
Trang 28• More a company recruits on Internet, the
greater the need for Internet recruiters
• High-tech firms have greatest needs
Trang 29Job Fairs
• Recruiting method engaged in
by single employer, or group of employers, to attract large
number of applicants to one
location for interviews
• Opportunity to meet a large
number of candidates in a short time
Trang 30Virtual Job Fair
• Online recruiting method engaged in by
single employer or group of employers to attract large number of applicants
• Reveals a wider range of students than
might attend a live fair
Trang 31• Places student in a temporary job
• No obligation to hire student permanently or for student to accept permanent position
• Typically temporary job for summer or
part-time job during school year
• Students bridge gap from theory to practice
Trang 32Executive Search Firms
• Locate experienced professionals and
executives
• Need specific types of individuals
• Contingency search firms - Receive fees only upon successful placement
• Retained search firms - Serve as consultants to clients on exclusive contract basis
Trang 33Professional Organizations
• Recruitment and placement services for members in many professions such as finance, marketing, information
technology
• Society for Human Resource Management operates job
referral service
Trang 34Sign-On Bonuses
• Used where severe shortages of highly skilled workers exist
• Amounts vary dramatically
Trang 35Methods and Sources of Recruitment for an Information
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