03. Best Practices on Recruit Methods through SHRM

 

Recruitment (Patrick, 2022)

   

    Recruiting the name itself is defined as the process of hiring new individuals to work for a company. Recruiting is also the process of attracting, identifying, and engaging candidates while ensuring qualifications and assessing the background information; interviewing and onboarding a quality candidate for the required vacancy (SHRM, 2022)

    By considering the performance of any business, employees constitute the most important part of the backbone and foundation of the organization. Therefore, effective employee recruitment and staff selection can improve the performance of the workforce. Organizations need to be able to attract and retain their most valuable asset as they influence a better performance of the business (Mbaknol, 2022)

    The primary objective of employee recruitment is to hire the most appropriate human resource with adequate qualities, skills, knowledge, and potential to train and develop. In today's contemporary organizations are considering other objectives aligned with employee resourcing such as (Mbaknol, 2022);

• Determining the number of employees required to operate the business: Should create proper analysis to identify the adequate number of employees to get the job done with the best results possible. Resourcing too many and too few people both can generate obstacles when expecting profits vs granting compensation and benefits.

• Identifying and managing the skills which are essential for business performance: Before hiring candidates, it's essential to identify the skills and knowledge required for the business and the skills and knowledge are having with the prospective candidates. After the hiring process, HR can improve the skills of employees by providing adequate training and development.

• Changing the organizational culture: To establish a sound organizational culture, a sound labor force is to be resourced by recruiting. The attitudes, beliefs, and personal characteristics of the employee should be properly analyzed through employee resourcing to establish a better workforce toward an organized corporate culture.

Traditional Recruitment Methods vs Modern Recruitment Methods

    There are different methods to acquire talent primarily categorized as traditional and modern recruitment methods. Depending on the resources available, the organization can find the ideal employees through internal procedures or external sources such as Talent Acquisition Agencies (Talent2win, 2021). 

Traditional Recruitment Methods

    This is generally conducted internally by Human Resources Department and recruiting new talent via internal promotions, use of existing networks within the company, and advertising through traditional methods. However, Traditional recruiting mythologies are now pushed out as being too expensive and too time-consuming for the modern workplace setting. Also considered an ineffective way of searching for truly rare findings within industries (Talent2win, 2021).

Presenting traditional recruiting methods (Kaye et al, 2013);

• Local paper advertisement: One of the simplest yet most effective ways of spreading the required talent is through local newspaper advertisements. 

• Local employment office postings: Organizations can likely find all types and sorts of employees through local unemployment offices.

• Temporary employment agencies: One of the most used recruitment methods that can shortlist potential and experienced professional candidates to the organization.

• Internal hiring: An extremely successful method where the organization promotes employees who are already part of the organization. This is one of the safest methods of recruitment and employees are like to perform well and retain within the organization with continuous promotions. 

Example for traditional recruiting method;

Paper Advertisement (Observer Jobs, 2022)

Modern Recruitment Methods

    This method track down potential candidates harnessing through technology. Apart from online job boards and social media sites, online recruitment sites and inbound marketing also can be considered for modern recruitment methods (Talent2win, 2021).

Presenting modern recruiting methods (Shalini, 2020);

• Smartphones: The easiest way to connect to today's world. Single access to all the recruiters and online job boards and real-time application process.

• Social media: Websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn plays a major role in the effective engagement of recruiting prospective candidates. This is also a very inexpensive method and provides a vast pool of candidates.

• Event recruitment: Companies tend to sponsor events where they can reflect their ethics and values. This method will enhance the brand recognition of the organization and also be a great way to reach a like-minded wide people network.

Example for modern recruiting method;

Online Advertisement (CBC, 2022)

    

    Griffin (2022) published that traditional recruitment models are supported by the past performance theory which defines if a candidate performed a task/ position in the past, they will more likely to successfully perform the task/ position in the future. Likewise, the performance theory supports that if the candidate never performed the task/ position in the past, then they will unlikely be able to learn anything new in the future. Hence, Griffin (2022) criticized that traditional recruiting models are not designed to evaluate what candidates can learn- since they are only hired based on the skills they have performed in the past. 

Analysing the differences between the usage of traditional and modern recruitment methods.

Shalini (2020)

    As per the article posted by Griffin (2022) the traditional recruiting models can no longer support the demand of candidates to hire expeditiously through the hiring process and makes it difficult for recruiters to even communicate with candidates for a speedy process. A future recruiting strategy needs to be compromised with the following characteristics; 

• Address external conditions where recruiters can find and hire people.
• Identify and understand customer needs and demands.
• Quality candidates in real-time rather than experience.
• Plan to maintain customer outcomes.

References

CBC (2022) Banking Trainee Advertisement (online) Available from https://www.combank.lk/careers [Accessed on 14th November 2022]

Griffin, C. R. (2022) Traditional Recruitment Model (blog entry) Foresight HR Data Analytics & Insight Consulting. Available from https://www.foresightforthenewagerecruiter.com/traditional-recruitment-model [Accessed on 14th November 2022]

Kaye, Bassman (2013) Modern Recruitment Methods Vs Traditional Recruitment Methods (blog entry) 27, December. Available from https://kbicblog.com/recruiting-executive-search/modern-recruitment-methods-vs-traditional-recruitment-methods/ [Accessed on 14th November 2022]

Mbaknol (2022) Employee Resourcing - Meaning, Objectives, and Applications (online) Available from https://www.mbaknol.com/human-resource-management/employee-resourcing/ [Accessed on 14th November 2022]

Observer Jobs (2022) Sunday Observer (online) Available from https://epapercdn.lakehouse.lk/DNSO/2022/11/13/SOJ/5_01/0c401a12_01_mr.jpg [Accessed on 14th November 2022]

Patrick (2022) Guide in Releasing an Employee when you're in a Recruitment Agency (online) Available from https://getcambox.com/guide-in-releasing-an-employee-when-youre-in-a-recruitment-agency/ [Accessed on 14th November 2022]

Shalini, L. (2020) Traditional Methods of Recruitment versus Modern Methods of Recruitment (blog entry) 30, March. Betterplace. Available from https://www.betterplace.co.in/blog/traditional-vs-modern-recruitment/ [Accessed on 14th November 2022]

SHRM (2022) Recruiting (online) Available from https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-glossary/pages/recruiting.aspx [Accessed on 14th November 2022]

Talent2win (2021) Talent Acquisition and Modern Recruitment Techniques (online) Available from https://talent2win.com/talent-acquisition-recruitment-methods/ [Accessed on 14th November 2022]