Recruiting Intro:Trends, Opportunities,

& Challenges

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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.

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What is Recruiting & Selection?Internal Factors that Impact R&S:

• Mission & Objectives• Policies• Organizational Climate• Management Philosophy• Other Functional Areas

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What is Recruiting & Selection?External Factors that Impact R&S:

• Legal & Political Environments• Labor Market• Economy• Customers• Competitors• Technology• Society• Unions

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The Recruitment & Selection ProcessThere are 3 main steps in the Recruitment & Selection process:

1. Analyzing2. Recruiting3. Interviewing & Testing

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The Recruitment & Selection ProcessDuring the Analysis step you’ll engage in the following activities:

• Realizing you have a need for someone• Job Analysis• Writing/Updating Job Descriptions

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The Recruitment & Selection ProcessDuring the Recruiting step you’ll engage in the following activities:

• Advertising• Receiving and categorizing application

materials

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The Recruitment & Selection ProcessDuring the Interviewing & Testing step you’ll engage in the following activities:

• Candidate testing• Interviewing• Extending an offer

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Theory vs. PracticeAccording 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

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Theory vs. PracticeThree examples of the difference in focus –

1. Employment testing2. Interviews3. Selection

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Theory vs. PracticeSo what was learned through this study?

1. Mgrs don’t believe their own “bull”2. Mgrs DO believe their own “bull”3. There’s a BIG difference in “say” and “do”

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The Changing WorkforceDemographic Changes –

•Age•Attitude•Technology

•Ethnicity•Education•Gender

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The Changing WorkforceLow wage workers –

•Result of changing nature of employment•Challenges for employers•Attracting and retaining

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The Changing WorkforceSpecial Interest Groups –

•Older Workers•Younger Workers•Women•“Minorities”•Disabled•Immigrant Workers

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The Changing WorkforceWorkplace Illiteracy – 1. Application distribution & completion2. Provide Job Descriptions3. Testing4. Conduct reference checks5. Conduct effective interviews

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R&S Challenges for Future HR Mgrs1. Finding increasingly specialized employees2. Balancing needs of firm & needs of employee3. Provide a safe, secure workplace4. Contend with a fluid legal environment5. Compete with non-traditional competitors

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Challenges for the FutureWhat can firms do?1. Throw out the book – it’s a new game2. Opportunity vs. job security3. Flexible work schedules4. “Non-traditional” structures & relationships5. Policies and procedures that guide, not control6. Be creative in recruiting