Recruiting Intro: Trends, Opportunities, & Challenges

1. Recruiting Intro: Trends, Opportunities, & Challenges

2. Introduction What is Recruiting & Selection? The process of identifying, attracting, and acquiring a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization’s effectiveness.

3. Introduction What is Recruiting & Selection? • Internal Factors that Impact R&S: • Mission & Objectives • Policies • Organizational Climate • Management Philosophy • Other Functional Areas

4. Introduction What is Recruiting & Selection? • External Factors that Impact R&S: • Legal & Political Environments • Labor Market • Economy • Customers • Competitors • Technology • Society • Unions

5. Introduction The Recruitment & Selection Process • There are 3 main steps in the Recruitment & • Selection process: • Analyzing • Recruiting • Interviewing & Testing

6. Introduction The Recruitment & Selection Process • During the Analysis step you’ll engage in the • following activities: • Realizing you have a need for someone • Job Analysis • Writing/Updating Job Descriptions

7. Introduction The Recruitment & Selection Process • During the Recruiting step you’ll engage in the • following activities: • Advertising • Receiving and categorizing application • materials

8. Introduction The Recruitment & Selection Process • During the Interviewing & Testing step you’ll • engage in the following activities: • Candidate testing • Interviewing • Extending an offer

9. Introduction Theory vs. Practice • According to Managers – Academics: • Have their own interests • Chase trivial or useless knowledge • Aren’t solving “real” workplace problems • According to Academics – Managers: • Want simple answers to hard problems • Don’t like the answers given to them

10. Introduction Theory vs. Practice • Three examples of the difference in focus – • Employment testing • Interviews • Selection

11. Introduction Theory vs. Practice • So what was learned through this study? • Mgrs don’t believe their own “bull” • Mgrs DO believe their own “bull” • There’s a BIG difference in “say” and “do”

12. Chapter 1 The Changing Workforce • Demographic Changes – • Age • Attitude • Technology • Ethnicity • Education • Gender

13. Chapter 1 The Changing Workforce • Low wage workers – • Result of changing nature of employment • Challenges for employers • Attracting and retaining

14. Chapter 1 The Changing Workforce • Special Interest Groups – • Older Workers • Younger Workers • Women • “Minorities” • Disabled • Immigrant Workers

15. Chapter 1 The Changing Workforce • Workplace Illiteracy – • Application distribution & completion • Provide Job Descriptions • Testing • Conduct reference checks • Conduct effective interviews

16. Chapter 1 R&S Challenges for Future HR Mgrs • Finding increasingly specialized employees • Balancing needs of firm & needs of employee • Provide a safe, secure workplace • Contend with a fluid legal environment • Compete with non-traditional competitors

17. Chapter 1 Challenges for the Future • What can firms do? • Throw out the book – it’s a new game • Opportunity vs. job security • Flexible work schedules • “Non-traditional” structures & relationships • Policies and procedures that guide, not control • Be creative in recruiting