Question

Discuss the following, and use examples from the company you work for or a company that you are familiar with in your local market to illustrate your points:

• Benefits and challenges that can arise in using external recruiting
• Benefits and challenges that can arise in using internal recruiting
• Which method of recruiting would you choose to fill an open position, if you were in a decision-making capacity in the workplace? Explain your response

Answer 1

Solution:

Given that:

The Benefits and challenges are

1. Internal Recruitment

2. External Recruitment

Internal Recruitment :

• Creating new atmosphere in an organization.
• New skill has been entered in an organization which provides Specialisation to the business.
• New knowledge has been entered into an organization.
• Cheaper and faster way to appoint new employee as compared to training an existing employee.

Benefits are :

• Cheaper and fastest way of filling vacant post.
• Less training is needed.
• Already know the organization culture and there working.
• The organization is familiar with strength and weakness of an existing employee who is giving a new vacant post.

Challenge are :

• Create another vacancy needed to be filled.
• Conflict arise between existing employee.
• Limited the new skills entered into the business.
• No new ideas has been entered in the market.

External Recruitment :

The Benefits of external Recruitment

• New knowledge and wider skill has been added to an organization.
• Best candidate can be placed for a role in an vacant job.
• Wide range of choices has been available with an organization.
• Creating new opportunities for an organisation.
• Cheaper and faster than a training.

The Challenges of external Recruitment

• Morale problem exist inside the internal employee
• It is more time and cost consuming.
• Firm will not able to select the employee which fit with an organisation work as well as culture.
• Longer understand period is needed by an existing employee.

Recruitment is a complex process in which right person has been appointed for a vacant position. It is time consuming and cost consuming process. So, filing a position is a difficult and complicated process .