Hr Selection Process

The action includes in Human Resource Management (HRM) is important to all managers in the organization. The primary reason is because HRM is a vital piece of every manager’s job as it concerned on every type of how individuals are employed and managed in the organizations. In addition, HRM consists of the process of recruitment and selection of employee, giving proper training and the developing skills, arranging proper orientation and induction, motivating, assessment of employee in terms of appraising performance, providing compensation and benefits, maintaining and retaining relations with the workers, managing wages and salaries, building employee commitment, maintaining employee health and safety and giving them an equal employment opportunity.

Recruitment is the process of finding and engaging the people the organization needs while selection is that part of the recruitment process concerned with deciding which applicants or candidates should be appointed to jobs (Armstrong, 2009). A new recruit is a valuable investment in such a way failure to identify the best candidate is a lost opportunity to the organization and selecting an unsuited candidate is a waste to the organization. Thus the management needs to attract as many as candidates to increase the number of applications specifically for one job vacancy so that it would be easier to select the most suitable candidates out of the selection total ratio of applicants. The selection part needed to be wise as means choosing candidates who would match the requirements needed for the job and the organization by collecting and assessing information about the candidates that is in terms of qualifications, experiences, qualities, skills and expertise.

Armstrong (2009) mentioned that, there are four stages of recruitment and selection process and before the process begin, the organization need to analyze precisely the nature of the vacancy to be filled. The four stages were as

The job description sets out the overall context on the tasks of the position and purpose of the job, the key duties and responsibilities as well as the outcomes required by the job holder and ways to fits into the organization structure. The benefit in designing job description is that it provides a clarity and agreement in the overall process of recruitment and selection on the purpose of the job, job content, key main duties and responsibilities so that the job applicants had a clear view into what exactly involves on the job being applied. It is necessary for the management to review that the job description is in well-written, up-to-date and accurately expresses the current requirements. Moreover, they need to verify that they had design an impressive job description for the post to be filled. The job description must match to the roles the individual will fill, the skill they need and the personality attributes to complete their tasks and any relevant experience that would make one applicant different from