Recruitment & Selection

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chapter 5 (p. 177-208) and chapter 3 pages 134-136

The recruitment and selection process of a company involves many aspects to consider when it comes to the company needs.

That is why Human Resource planning is so important because in here you can measure if you have the right people and the right amount so everything flows accordingly in your company, so when a job opportunity is available you can know if you will promote someone that is your employee already or if you are gonna hire someone from the outside.

The recruitment process has its own point to take care of as:

– Determining characteristics Important to performance

-Measuring Characteristics that determine performance

– Motivation rather than ability

The Selection is after you have all the applicants profiles so you need to make decisions, in here the most common methods used are:

– Letters of recommendation

-Application forms

-Ability test

-Personality test

-Honesty test

-Interviews

But it is not only about recruiting and selecting, but also you need to pay attention to the legal issues in staffing as:

– Discriminatory laws (Disabilities, age, color, sex, religion, race and national origin).

-Affirmative Actions

-Negligent hiring

Matching all this information with the Abercrombie article it is all about a careless and dysfunctional process in recruitment and hiring, starting from the way that the author of the article was first invited, she was not even looking for a job, the recruitment girl just see her and was based in her appearance 100%, as the author mentioned no one was asked for a recommendation letter or a way to determine their skills and competencies.

When reading the article I ask myself, Do a well-looking person has more abilities than a not that gorgeous one? I mean, I do not even know what gorgeous means at all, because everyone has a different perspective.

It is true that nowadays the brands had to move to this new generation of “we all are perfect” so they had to accept new ways of marketing and selling such as that our differences make us perfect and that we all are the same.

So in conclusion, for a company is pretty important to take care of this department seriously, because a pretty face is useless if it has no motivation, abilities, skills and all the bunch of requisites that are needed to cover a job.

SOURCES:

  • Gomez-Mejia, L.R., Balkin, D.B. and Cardy, R.L. 2016. Managing Human Resources. Global Edition 8/E. Pearson. London. ISBN-10: 1292097248 • ISBN-13: 9781292097244

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