Recruitment

Question 1

What is recruitment?

Answer 1

The process of looking for potential employees to apply for a particular job in an organisation (internally or externally)

Question 2

What are methods to promote jobs internally?

Answer 2

Staff noticeboard, organisation’s intranet, email and company newsletter

Question 3

What are methods to promote jobs externally?

Answer 3

Job centres, newspapers, websites and recruitment agencies

Question 4

What are benefits of internal recruitment?

Answer 4

• The vacancy is filled quickly
• Less costly as you don’t need to pay recruitment costs
• All candidates are known by the business (less training, trustworthy)
• Employees are motivated to word harder by potential promotion opportunities (productivity)

Question 5

What are costs of internal recruitment?

Answer 5

• Creates another vacancy in the business
• Leads to resentment and rivalry between staff
• Lack of diversity/ no new innovation and organisation becomes stale
• Narrow pool of candidates

Question 6

What are benefits of extrenal recruitment?

Answer 6

• Fresh blood, new ideas/innovations so no new vacancy
• Reduced internal competition
• Wider pool of candidates with variety of skills/qualities
• May be better qualified and experienced for the job

Question 7

What are costs of external recruitment?

Answer 7

• Time consumign to carry out
• Costly to advertise
• Staff unset due to no new promotions
• Doesn’t know candidate and candidate doesn’t know business
• Riskier