Chapter overview
Recruitment and selection are terms that are often used as synonyms.
In fact they are separate but linked processes. Recruitment refers to the activities and processes undertaken by an organization
in order to define its employee or volunteer needs and generate a
suitably qualified pool of candidates for various positions. Selection
refers to the techniques and methods of choosing the best candidate
from the pool that has been generated by recruitment.
This chapter begins by establishing the reasons why recruitment
and selection are such important human resource (HR) activities
and then describes a sequential process of managing both activities
from the beginning to the end. Various alternatives are outlined
in relation to each activity and the advantages and disadvantages
associated with these alternatives are outlined.