CHAPTER 4: EMPLOYEE SELECTION:
RECRUITING AND INTERVIEWING
EMPLOYEE RECRUITMENT
Recruitment- process of attracting
employees to an organization.
-attracting people w/ the right qualifications
to apply for the job
External Recruitment- recruiting
employees from outside the organization.
Internal Recruitment- recruiting
employees already employed by the
organization.
Noncompetitive promotions- usually involve
“career progression” positions in which
employees move from a position such as
engineer 1 to engineer 2
Competitive promotions- several internal
applicants compete w/ one another for a
limited number of higher positions.
STEPS IN SELECTING EMPLOYEES
Job Analysis > Selection of Testing
Send-resume ads- recruitment ads in which
applicants are instructed to send their
resume to the company rather than call or
apply in person.
Blind box- recruitment ads that instruct
applicants to send their resume to a box at
the newspaper; neither the name nor the
address of the company is provided.
3 Reasons of Usage of Blind Box
• The organization doesn’t want is name
in public.
• The company might fear that people
wouldn’t apply if they knew the name
of the company.
• On rare occasions, a company needs
to terminate an employee but wants
first to find a replacement.
Writing Recruitment Ads
Best way to write recruitment ads
• Ads containing realistic information
about the job, rather than too good
to be true, increase applicant
