Recruiting Process Demystified

Recruiting is tough, laborious, and could be quite frustrating yet we have no choice:

• Organizations grow opening new needs and requiring new resources.
• Teams and organizations at large go through significant structural changes redefining resource requirements.
• Attrition calls for replenishment.
• Sometimes need for recruitment comes from change of focus.
• And sometimes from completely unjustified executive directions.

Many organizations look at Recruiting Process mainly as simply an interviewing process. There is of course much more to it from marketing the company to potential employees to maintaining good vibe about it even after layoffs and terminations. Simplifying that just a little bit let’s look at nine key components of the Recruiting Process:

Identifying the Need. The first step in recruiting is deceivingly simple – decide what position you need to fill in. For example one of the most common mistakes in this case is assumptions that position that just opened up is the one that needs to be filled in. Another common trap not rethinking the needs in case recruitments takes a long time. Organizations even the least dynamic constantly change, people step up to new challenges, new projects start, processes change, and so on. In addition consider these questions to ask yourself: