BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Recruitment
- the activity of employing workers to fill vacancies or enrolling new members. Employment recruitment is composed of several stages: verifying that a vacancy exists; drawing up a job specification; finding candidates; selecting them by interviewing and other means such as conducting a psychometric test; and making a job offer. Effective recruitment is important in achieving high organizational performance and minimizing labor turnover. Employees may be recruited either externally or internally.
Additional Resources
- Do We Really Need Recruitment Agencies? | BTalk Australia
- (14min 21) What benefits do recruitment agencies provide? With the advent of online job-sites can't you do the job yourself and save a fortune on agency commissions. In today's BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Kelly McGowan, a director of recruitment site sixfigures.com.au. She says agencies still...
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- Crunch Time For Companies To Reduce Recruitment Costs
- 2008 has seen a major shift in the recruitment industry with many organizations now looking to implementing online recruitment methods to dramatically reduce their recruitment costs. Since the first Job board was introduced in 1992, the face of recruitment has changed and there are now a growing number of suppliers...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
- If you are interested in reducing your cost per hire, time to hire and attracting the best talent available, then Recruitment Process Outsourcing RPO is definitely worth considering. "Recruitment Process Outsourcing RPO refers to a company outsourcing its recruitment or staffing process to an external service provider". The external provider...
- White papers 2007-04-26
- Recruitment and Selection Practices
- Better recruitment and selection strategies result in improved organizational outcomes. The more effectively organizations recruit and select candidates, the more likely they are to hire and retain satisfied employees. The objectives of this study were to identify general practices that organizations use, to recruit and select employees, determine which recruitment...
- White papers 1999-09-15
- HP LAUNCHES OVER-1,000-PEOPLE RECRUITMENT IN CHINA
- AsiaInfo Services 05-16-2006 HP Launches Over-1,000-People Recruitment in China BEIJING, May 16, 2006 SinoCast via COMTEX -- China Hewlett-Packard Co., Ltd. recently launched a recruitment project for 1,078 new employees in Mainland China. AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 2006-05-16
- GOOGLE'S RECRUITMENT PLAN MAY BE AFFECTED
- AsiaInfo Services 09-05-2005 Google's Recruitment Plan May be Affected BEIJING, Sep 05, 2005 SinoCast via COMTEX -- The global search engine power Google recently said in a court file that its recruitment plan would be affected if Kai Fu Lee ...
- Research articles 2005-09-05
- Using Video Games for Recruitment
- Using Video Games for RecruitmentRE: Using Video Games for Recruitmenthttp://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_04/b4068039077903.htmRE: Using Video Games for Recruitmenthttp://www.brandstorm.loreal.com/Cand/index.aspRE: Using Video Games for RecruitmentIt seems like some companies took your idea :-)
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- WetFeet.com Launches WetFeet Recruiter, A Full-Service, Hosted Recruitment Solution To Round Out Its Comprehensive Recruitment Offerings
- WetFeet.com announced today the release of WetFeet RecruiterTM, a new web-based recruitment solution that helps HR professionals and recruiters increase their effectiveness by automating the online recruiting process. WetFeet.com, a leading recruitment marketing, research, and services provider, used findings from its extensive recruitment research and corporate partnerships to design...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
- How To Make Recruitment Agencies Work For You
- There are two different ways that you can use recruitment agencies to find your ideal job. This article explores how you can find your ideal job without wasting too much of your precious time. Most people have experienced the recruitment agency black hole. This is when you register with an...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Recruitment As The Most Important Aspect Of Human Resource Management
- Human Resource Management theories focus on methods of recruitment and selection and highlight the advantages of interviews, general assessment and psychometric testing as employee selection processes. The recruitment process could be internal or external or could also be online and involves the stages of recruitment policies, advertising, job description, job...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Finding Recruitment Leads With Recruitment Lead Generation
- Finding solid recruitment leads without a good recruitment lead generation service in place can be hard, especially if you are a small firm. Unfortunately, it does not always seem feasible to find or afford a good service to take on the task of calling all of the different companies out...
- White papers 2009-04-03
- Essential Recruitment Tool - Campus Recruitment
- Campus Recruitment is one of the most common and widely used recruitment methods for hiring the best and most suitable talent while still in college. Most colleges have a designated College Recruitment season during which time recruiters from various Companies visit specialized colleges and meet students with an intern to...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Recruitment Agencies - Partner or Pest?
- Like most HR professionals, I've had positive and negative experiences in dealing with recruitment agencies. To save on costs, we first try and fill a vacant role in-house. If we're unsuccessful, we then turn to recruitment agencies to assist us finding the ideal candidate. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Recruitment faces sector-wide upheaval.
- Aug 17, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- There are too many recruitment firms in Australia and an industry shakeout is inevitable. Matt Lodge, chief executive of recruitment brokerage company, RSP Global, says that medium-sized recruitment agencies will fold and...
- Research articles 2001-08-16
- SPRING: Ron Hickman appointed Director of Permanent Recruitment at Spring IT Personnel.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-9 September 1998-SPRING: Ron Hickman appointed Director of Permanent Recruitment at Spring IT Personnel C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:090998 LONDON -- Ron Hickman has been appointed to the Board of Spring IT Personnel, the UK's largest IT recruitment firm (formerly...
- Research articles 1998-09-09
- Prime Time Recruitment selects Telefonica UK's DSL-based Managed IP VPN for its high flexibility and low cost; Prime Time Recruitment will benefit from an anticipated ROI in six months.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-27 September 2004-TELEFONICA: Prime Time Recruitment selects Telefonica UK's DSL-based Managed IP VPN for its high flexibility and low cost; Prime Time Recruitment will benefit from an anticipated ROI in six monthsC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09272004 London - Telefonica UK...
- Research articles 2004-09-27
- Recruitment Advertising With A Twist
- From the executive summary: ‘A commitment to making the most of one's recruitment advertising budget requires the time to analyze the market climate and research what potential employees think about the company. The next step is to become familiar with local, regional, and national media to find the absolute best...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Maximizing Your Opportunities for Recruitment and Retention in Healthcare
- This white paper offers actions that healthcare recruiters can use now to maximize their recruitment efforts and ensure their organizations are prepared. While current healthcare recruitment issues are challenging, they are also opportunities to refine and enhance recruitment and retention efforts, thus improving candidate potential, and the institution's overall bottom...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Recruitment Strategies: Managing/Effecting the Recruitment Process
- Recruitment, as a human resource management function, is one of the activities that impact most critically on the performance of an organisation. While it is understood and accepted that poor recruitment decisions continue to affect organisational performance and limit goal achievement, it is taking a long time for public service...
- White papers 2005-11-28
- UK Firms 'Can't Be Bothered' to Measure if Recruitment Money Is Well Spent
- Nearly half of British businesses fail adequately to measure how successful their recruitment methods are, and one in 10 does not even bother to try, according to new research. The study from recruitment firm Executives Online has found that, while practically every other business discipline is locked into stringent performance...
- White papers 2006-03-17
