Recruitment - Recruitment Approaches

Recruitment Approaches

There are a variety of recruitment approaches and most organisations will utilise a combination of two or more of these as part of a recruitment exercise or to deliver their overall recruitment strategy. In summary five basic models more commonly found are:-

• An in-house personnel or human resources function may in some case still conduct all stages of the recruitment process. In the smallest organisations recruitment may be left to individual managers. More frequently whilst managing the overall recruitment exercise and the decision-making at the final stages of the selection process external service providers may undertake the more specialised aspects of the recruitment process.

• Outsourcing of recruitment to an external provider may be the solution for some small businesses and at the other extreme very large organisations

• Employment agencies are established as both publicly-funded services and as commercial private sector operations. Services may support permanent, temporary, or casual worker recruitment. They may be generic agencies that deal with providing unskilled workers through to highly-skilled managerial or technical staff or so-called niche agencies that specialize in a particular industrial sector or professional group.

• Executive search firms for executive and professional positions. These firms operate across a range of models such as contingency or retained approaches and also hybrid models where advertising is also used to ensure a flow of candidates alongside relying on networking as their main source of candidates.

• Internet recruitment services including recruitment websites and job search engines used to gather as many candidates as possible by advertising a position over a wide geographic area. In addition social network sourced recruitment has emerged as a major method of sourcing candidates.