RECRUITING AND STAFFING

During third and fourth week, I had learned about recruiting and staffing. Actually a lot of methods can be used for recruitment such as advertisement in newspaper. However, this subject is more concern about on-line recruitment.

Recruitment is a very important element and initial stage of HRIS. Definition of recruitment is a process of attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a job position. The next stage of HRIS process is selection, which means select appropriate individual for the job position. Lastly is staffing, a process of selecting and train the selected individual to fit into the job function. The main objective of this process is to find suitable people to fill the job position and decrease employees' turnover rate. The flow of the process is as following.

There are a lot of functions and applications of this process such as workforce analysis and planning, sourcing and attract and etc. But I am quite surprising that recruitment also related to deployment and retention because I thought this process is just hiring employees when organization is facing shortage of employees. However, the information shown through this process can let the current employees to understand the requirement of the job and act as a motivator for employees to improve their behavior and attitude if they do not want to get fired.

Although this process produced many advantage such as recruit appropriate candidate in a short time, the disadvantages cannot be neglected. For example, information overloads and limited to user access. Besides, in my opinion, to maintain this process required a lot of time and cost which will affect the organizations’ profit directly. I think this may be the main reason why many organizations are unwilling to sacrifice profit to conduct this on-line process.

In conclusion, we must sacrifice something that we precious before we gain something we want. So, even higher costs are needed for this process, but in the long run we will gain the benefits.