Seth Smith wants to create a new position in his organization and hire a Vice-Pr

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Seth Smith wants to create a new position in his organization and hire a Vice-President of Operations as soon as the Board of Directors approves recommendations made by the HR Department. This position would be a critical and strategic high-level executive employee. Smith does not believe there is anyone in the company that can fit the bill for this key employee who will oversee the company's expansion. Smith wants to move to using technologically-competent machines in floriculture. This technology theoretically will lead to a reduction in labor or a hiring freeze, particularly for floriculture workers. The idea is to end up getting more crops in the fields while lowering costs and input. Furthermore, he needs someone who can oversee and correct operational inefficiencies. Smith wants a highly educated business person with experience in the industry who can handle all aspects of the business: planning, purchasing, sales and fulfillment, and inventory.

•A report on the use of outside sources of candidates to include explaining the pros and cons of informal recruiting, recruiting on the Internet, Social Media, and what is involved in working with a recruiting company.

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Let us look at each process of recruiting one by one:

Forms of recruiting

Description

Pros

Cons

Informal recruiting

Employer recruit from within the organization. This essentially means employer either promotes or transfers an employee to fill the vacant position. This can be interdepartmental movement or between geographies.

Recruiting on Internet

You come across a few people through news any such other means and try to recruit that person. You get the profile of the person on job websites, applicant database through company career section

Social Media Recruiting

You get references through social media, select the prospective list of candidate looking at their Linkedin, facebook profile

Recruiting with a Recruitment Company

You hire a recruitment agency to get candidates on your behalf. The recruitment agencies select candidates by skimming through the profiles available on different media websites and also with them and forwards a selected few to the company for final selection process.

Forms of recruiting

Description

Pros

Cons

Informal recruiting

Employer recruit from within the organization. This essentially means employer either promotes or transfers an employee to fill the vacant position. This can be interdepartmental movement or between geographies.

• 1. The employee already know about the organization culture, needs and start performing from day one
  2. The organization knows about the employee and can trust him/ her immediately.
  3. Not much expense is required for recruiting the employee

• 1. Employer miss out the opportunity to work with good talent from outside
  2. Employer miss out the innovative and new ideas that a new recruit brings to the table.
  3. The existing employee may already feel being at a high position as he/she was considered when compared to others

Recruiting on Internet

You come across a few people through news any such other means and try to recruit that person. You get the profile of the person on job websites, applicant database through company career section

• 1. You needn't work too hard to get a pool of applicants as soon as you post a job.
  2. Job portals aggregates the profiles and send it to you based upon the suitability to the profile.

• 1. Often candidate portray themselves as somebody who they are not by creating resume as per the Job Description.
  2. You may select profiles of candidates who aren't desperately looking for a job and hence they may have a strong negotiating position.

Social Media Recruiting

You get references through social media, select the prospective list of candidate looking at their Linkedin, facebook profile

• 1. Time saving, low cost, fast reach.
  2. Easy to target the prospective candidate.
  3. Screening is easier, by looking at their profiles.

• 1. Recommendations can be misleading
  2. A profile can be cosmetically built to impress the recruiter
  3. You may miss out some good candidate who aren't active on social media

Recruiting with a Recruitment Company

You hire a recruitment agency to get candidates on your behalf. The recruitment agencies select candidates by skimming through the profiles available on different media websites and also with them and forwards a selected few to the company for final selection process.

• 1. Saves the hassle of searching and skimming the profiles of the candidates.
  2. Time saving, the recruitment agencies does the background check at their end.

• 1. Often recruitment agencies forward the few profiles that they have received without checking the candidate fit.
  2. Your trust on recruiting agencies could be misleading.
  3. Organization may lose good employees if the employer focusses on the candidates provided by the recruiting agency only.

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