RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION IN PAKISTANI COMPANIES

INTRODUCTION TO TOPIC
(Recruitment and selection)
Human resource recruitment refers to any organizational activity that is designed to effect ,1)the number of people who apply for vacancies,2) the type of people who apply for them and/or, 3) the likelihood that those applying for vacancies will accept position if offered. The goal of any organization recruitment program is to ensure that the organization has a number of reasonably qualified applicants (who will find the job acceptable) to choose from when a vacancy occurs.
The goal of the recruiting is not simply to generate large number of applicants, if the process generates a sea of unqualified applicants, the organization will incur great expenses in personal selection, but few vacancies will actually be filled.
The goal of a personal recruitment is not to finely discriminate among reasonably qualified applicants either. Recruiting new personnel and selecting new personnel are both complex processes. Each task is hard enough to accomplish successfully .even when one is well focused. Organizations explicitly trying to do both at the same time will probably not to do either well.

DEFINITION OF RECRUITMENT.
Recruitment is the first part of the process of filling the vacancies; it includes the examination of the vacancies, the consideration of sources of suitable candidates, making contact with those candidates and attracting applications from them. (OR) All activities directed towards locating potential employees, (OR) the attraction of applications, form suitable applicants.
THE AIMS OF RECRUITMENT.
Organization does not operate in a vacuum and recruitment drives or one of the times when an organization has direct contact with the outside world. Other factors affecting recruitment or the framework impose by legislation, and the fact that no organization will want to spend money on unnecessary activities. In keeping with this and definition of recruitment given above the aims of recruitment are:
· To obtain pool of suitable candidates for vacant posts.
· To use and be seen to use a fair process
· To ensure that all recruitment activities contribute to company goals and a desirable company image
· To conduct recruitment activities in an efficient and cost effective manner
These statement intimate that a number of judgment to be made about how recruitment is carried out.
Figure illustrates the relationship among human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment, and the selection process.








RECRUITMENT SOURCES.
There are mainly two types of recruitment sources are used in the organization.
a) Internal sources
b) External sources
A diagram illustrates these