Recruiting And Staffing…..

Recruitment and staffing provide the overall framework for the process of planning, recruiting, selecting, and hiring employees. The goal of recruitment and staffing is to identify the smartest, most versatile employees you can find. Retention of your best employees starts with your effective recruitment and staffing process, strategies, policies and procedures. Recruitment and staffing are the focus of these resources. (http://humanresources.about.com/od/recruitingandstaffing/Employee_Planning_Recruiting_Selecting_Staffing_and_Hiring.htm)

Based on journal, “Staffing practices in the private sector in Sri Lanka” explain that staffing which is concerned with the recruitment, selection, placement, evaluation and promotion of individuals, lies at the heart of how businesses procure human resources (HR) in an organization. Besides that, the focus is on matching the capabilities and inclinations of prospective candidates against the demands and rewards inherent in a given job.

In this chapter, we learn about what selection criteria and selection methods are used. For example, the appropriate selection method is job analysis. This included the requirement, experience, skill and also abilities. This important to make sure a job position will fill by right person in the right time. And make sure the job position doing very well. Though, the appropriate selection criteria are based on attitudes and also soft skills. This need because can increase organization performance and also increase employee motivate. And also the organizations need to concentrate on prospective employees’ “hard” technical skills and also their “soft” behavioural skills. However, it was argued that most often organizations’ recruitment and selection processes emphasise prospective employees’ “hard” skills and focus very little on their “soft” skills. Besides that, evidence suggests that effective communication, leadership, motivation, analytical skills, and organizational ability were among the important qualities that were sought during the selection process.

Problems in staffing and recruiting also we learn and understand. From my perspective, the common problem is attitude among the employee. Attitude means natural and just can change by you based on motivation and etc. Why I tell that?. This because, good recruiting and staffing based on human attitude. So, if bad attitude will give bad outcome.

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Reference:

http://humanresources.about.com/od/recruitingandstaffing/Employee_Planning_Recruiting_Selecting_Staffing_and_Hiring.htm

Vathsala Wickramasinghe (2006), Staffing Practices In The Private Sector In Sri Lanka. Journal Of Career Development International, 12 (2),108-128