Recruitment - Meaning and Concept

Recruitment is the process of searching for and obtaining applications so as to build a pool of job seekers from whom the right people for the right jobs may be selected.

• The purpose of recruitment is to build a pool of applicants.

• Recruitment represents the first contact an organization makes with potential employees.

• It is through recruitment that many individuals will come to know a company and eventually decide whether they wish to work for it.

• It is an ongoing process because employee leave the firm in search of greener pastures-some retire and some die in the saddle.

• More importantly, an enterprise grows, diversifies, takes over other units-all necessitating hiring of new employees.

• In fact, the recruitment function stops only when the company ceases to exist.

• Theoretically, recruitment process is said to end with the receipt of application.