The process of recruitment is the most important aspect of Human Resource management of the Company. There are special recruitment methods and strategies used in recruitment drives which are held by the companies to find out talented people from the crowd who can prove fruitful for the company’s growth and progress. The future development of the company is totally dependent on the new talent that is induced in the company. Hence the process that is used to recruit new talent becomes all the more important in the development of the company.
Types of recruitment methods:
The most recognized and popular of the many Recruitment methods is the ever-popular Job Adverts that are the most famous and effective when it comes to seeking talent. Recruiters nowadays are using innovative methods and they have innovated on the method of Job Advertisements and are now targeting the website where their target candidates are most likely to browse. Such new and innovative techniques are proving to be highly effective. Many large companies like Amazon have posted job adverts on Tinder to target their audience, similarly when Goldman Sachs had targeted their potential candidate on Spotify. These internal/external recruitment techniques are based on the assumption that you know what traits or browsing habits will be your candidates involved in.
Another one of the ingenious and simple Recruitment methods that are employed extensively in the industry is the use of Video Conferencing to recruit new people. It is highly effective when you have to recruit people from different recruitment sources around the world and it saves them time and money of the recruiter and the employee as well.
Another recruitment method that is highly gaining important in the recruitment industry now is the use of freelances for short term projects and gigs. Now it has become all the more important to keep the profit margins high and keeping these high is not an easy task, as the cost of hiring an employee is very high nowadays. Hence in order to get work done and to keep profit high companies use the services of freelancers who are paid much less and do equal work but at a nominal price. There are many services that are available which provide flexible freelancing services at effective prices to various companies. These services are trusted and reliable for everyone to use.
New age recruitment sources:
Recruiters are using the technique of using Professional social media services which are very popular nowadays are used as a passive tool by recruiters to keep the potential candidates engaged and in case they make their minds to shift their jobs they can simply hop onto the opportunity and recruit them with ease. This Recruitment method is also known as the passive method of recruitment. It is used to make a strong connection with employee and this connection is used by the recruiters. As we have already mentioned employees are the most important asset a company can ever have, hence this is the method which is used by the companies to recruit more people into the company, this is done via employee referral programs which prove to be very appealing for the new as well as existing employees. Existing employees can be rewarded for Recruiting new employees into the company, while the new employees are happy to be employed. It is a win-win situation for the new as well as the existing employees. The most important aspect of referrals is that these should be simple for the existing employees to use and induce new talent into the company. It has all the more become important to know the whereabouts and the background of the employees that a company is about to recruit in the company. Hence many new Employee review sites have come up which have helped the recruiters in doing background checks of various types that help the decision-makers in taking the final decision related to the selection of employees for their organization.
All these recruitment methods used by the recruiters are very helpful and useful in the process of recruitment but there is one major concern which is of utmost importance for the recruiters is the effective management of aging employees of the organization which is of course in a position to provide effective services to their company.
Another important aspect is the use of mobile phones in the recruitment process which gives is the benefit of addressing the whole generation X in just one go. The recruitment process is a dynamic ever-changing process and Human Resource management is evolving with the evolving times to keep up with the pace of changing times.
From India, New Delhi
9Types of recruitment methods:
The most recognized and popular of the many Recruitment methods is the ever-popular Job Adverts that are the most famous and effective when it comes to seeking talent. Recruiters nowadays are using innovative methods and they have innovated on the method of Job Advertisements and are now targeting the website where their target candidates are most likely to browse. Such new and innovative techniques are proving to be highly effective. Many large companies like Amazon have posted job adverts on Tinder to target their audience, similarly when Goldman Sachs had targeted their potential candidate on Spotify. These internal/external recruitment techniques are based on the assumption that you know what traits or browsing habits will be your candidates involved in.
Another one of the ingenious and simple Recruitment methods that are employed extensively in the industry is the use of Video Conferencing to recruit new people. It is highly effective when you have to recruit people from different recruitment sources around the world and it saves them time and money of the recruiter and the employee as well.
Another recruitment method that is highly gaining important in the recruitment industry now is the use of freelances for short term projects and gigs. Now it has become all the more important to keep the profit margins high and keeping these high is not an easy task, as the cost of hiring an employee is very high nowadays. Hence in order to get work done and to keep profit high companies use the services of freelancers who are paid much less and do equal work but at a nominal price. There are many services that are available which provide flexible freelancing services at effective prices to various companies. These services are trusted and reliable for everyone to use.
New age recruitment sources:
Recruiters are using the technique of using Professional social media services which are very popular nowadays are used as a passive tool by recruiters to keep the potential candidates engaged and in case they make their minds to shift their jobs they can simply hop onto the opportunity and recruit them with ease. This Recruitment method is also known as the passive method of recruitment. It is used to make a strong connection with employee and this connection is used by the recruiters. As we have already mentioned employees are the most important asset a company can ever have, hence this is the method which is used by the companies to recruit more people into the company, this is done via employee referral programs which prove to be very appealing for the new as well as existing employees. Existing employees can be rewarded for Recruiting new employees into the company, while the new employees are happy to be employed. It is a win-win situation for the new as well as the existing employees. The most important aspect of referrals is that these should be simple for the existing employees to use and induce new talent into the company. It has all the more become important to know the whereabouts and the background of the employees that a company is about to recruit in the company. Hence many new Employee review sites have come up which have helped the recruiters in doing background checks of various types that help the decision-makers in taking the final decision related to the selection of employees for their organization.
All these recruitment methods used by the recruiters are very helpful and useful in the process of recruitment but there is one major concern which is of utmost importance for the recruiters is the effective management of aging employees of the organization which is of course in a position to provide effective services to their company.
Another important aspect is the use of mobile phones in the recruitment process which gives is the benefit of addressing the whole generation X in just one go. The recruitment process is a dynamic ever-changing process and Human Resource management is evolving with the evolving times to keep up with the pace of changing times.
From India, New Delhi
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