The recruitment process within a business can be a lengthy procedure to go through. If and when the business decide to hire a new individual for a role, the business must define the needs and wants of the role required before they can begin the search to recruit. The specifications need to be drawn up of what the role requires and then the process can start. Businesses need to attract people to the job, then screen the selected few chosen and then begin the selection process.
The website ‘www.prospects.ac.uk’ is a website aimed at graduates of university beginning their search for the perfect job. The website is split into sections ‘Careers Advice’, ‘Jobs And Work Experience’, ‘Postgraduate Study’, ‘Job Sectors’, ‘Student Life’ and ‘International Students’. From these sections arise sub-sections. These are put in place so that the individual can explore any area and find out more perhaps about what a certain role would entails, how to get the qualifications necessary for the job, and if qualifications are necessary, how and what qualifications would be necessary and how would the individual achieve them.
The website was easily accessible and was simple to understand. The layout of the webpage was helpful and the sub sections held a lot of useful information. The website was linked to other potential websites depending on what area or direction the individual was looking at and seeking advice about.
The website was extremely handy for first time users and individuals unaware of the steps to take to further either their education or their place in the hierarchy within a business.
A recruitment campaign that has caught my attention is on the B&Q website. The company prides itself on have five main goals :
- Customer first
- Down To Earth
- Respect For People
- We Can Do It
- Nobody does it better
· The campaign’s main achievement is to enlighten people on how B&Q separate themselves to other companies and provide people with information on what jobs they have to offer. The website states that “Our diversity policy relates to gender, race, age and ability” and “we aim to reduce the impact that our products have on the environment”.
B&Q have prided themselves on some of their achievements such as:
- Removed our retirement age more than 15 years ago
- Introduced 'Voice of the Customer' web-based questionnaire to gather valuable customer feedback
- Only UK employer to receive Gallup Great Workplace Award for three years running
- Listed in The Times 'Top 50 places where women want to work' for four consecutive years
- Largest UK retail user of City & Guilds Qualifications
- Supported more than 10,000 community projects
Online recruitment seems to be the newest and easiest way of recruiting people. The advantages of this are;
- The opportunity to advertising to a range of different people
- Advertising to a vast amount of people all at once
- The internet is fast and emails send instantly therefore the process is quicker
- It saves a lot of money for the Business
- The Business won’t need to employ as many people to recruit
5. However, although it may be a faster option there can be some draw backs to this new system too;
- Unable to analyse the person face to face
- Many more applications to sort through
- The more applications, the more time consuming the process becomes
- People lose out on job opportunities being in a recruitment agency
- Lengthens the process
The recruitment process within a business is very important and any steps taken to improve the process will be seen as a positive thing.
Referencing:
L. J. Mullins Management & Organisational Behaviour (2010) 9th Edition.
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