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

Answer 1 : 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 . There are two ways of Recruitment such as

• External Recruitment
• Internal Recruitment

External Recruitment means searching a people outside the organization .

Benefit of external Recruitment are :

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

Challenge faced by external Recruitment are :

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

Example of External recruitment are mostly used by large organisation where Specialisation is required . Wipro, Telecommunication .

Internal Recruitment :

It means filling of new post within an organization.

Benefits are :

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

Challenge are :

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

Example of internal organisation are the small firms or firm with limited resources used this techinques.

As a decision maker of an organization , I used external Recruitment method for filling an open position :

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