Question

Human Resource Management

1)Evaluate three internal and three external recruitment channels. 500 words

2)What differentiates training from development and what are the challenges facing both? 500 words

Answer 1

Recruiting the best and potential candidates are  very essential for attaining the organizational objectives to its fullness.

EXTERNAL RECRUITMENT

External recruitment is the evaluation of available pool of candidates, other than the currently existing staff in order to know and get if there are sufficiently qualified and skilled employees.  It is simply the process of searching for employees outside, other than the employees within the organization.

Conducting external recruitment is having following advantages:

• It increases its chance of finding the right person for the job.
• It enables the organization to target the key players that may make its competition successful.
• Potentially qualified and skilled candidates who can help the organization in meeting its diversity requirements.

The two most commonly used technique of external recruitment is  job boards and social media recruitments.

• Job boards

The most common and effective method of external recruitment is the job boards. An employment website can deal with employment and career opportunities. Generally these employment websites are designed to promote employers for posting job requirements for the position which needed to be filled and they are known as job boards. This method of employee hiring allows the managers to reach a wide range of audience.

• Social media marketing

Almost all peoples especially youngsters who were considered is the pool of potential employees uses social medias, which makes the sense to conduct job campaigns through them. Social media is a platform where people hang out online in order to express their ideas as well as to communicate with each other.

Benefits of social media recruiting includes:

• Enables to find the most talented and passionate workers
• Employer can get the resumes details even without a resume
• Enables to filter out and remove bad candidates
• Social media recruiting is less costly method
• Helps to gain reach towards audience.

• Recruitment agency

It Provides employers with details of suitable candidates for a vacancy and can sometimes be referred to as 'head-hunters'. They work for a fee and often specialise in particular employment areas e.g. nursing, financial services, teacher recruitment

INTERNAL RECRUITMENT

Internal recruitment is when the business looks to fill the vacancy from within its existing workforce.

Conducting internal recruitment is advantageous in the following manner:

• Reduce hiring time
• Reduces the  onboarding times.
• Less cost involved
• Improves the employee engagement.
• Helps in creating resentment among employees and managers.
• Leave a gap in your existing workforce.
• Limit the wide pool of applicants.

• Job posting

Many employers use internal job postings for encouraging  employees to identify internal promotional opportunities and respond to those openings for which they have skills and interest.

• Nominations

Some companies are having a more closed approach towards internal recruitment and may ask managers for nominating high-performing individuals as candidates for internal roles. This is an informal system, yet it is  highly effective in smaller organizations in which individuals are familiar with the work of employees in other departments.

• Succession planning

Organizations can use succession planning strategies not only to identify the potential talent in the organization, but also for establishing developmental plans to help prepare the individuals for promotional roles.