Recruitment and Selection of Top Women in Organizations

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Human Resource Management

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Executive Summary
This assignment distils a result of two gender analysis and imbalances in senior roles in
anorganization. In a multinational company, the term leadership, research and human resource
management, discrimination and violence are all gendered. This assignment reflects the
supplementary research about the hiring process of an organization in terms of women’s. It
reviews factors of women's full equal opportunities and effective participation for leadership at
all levels of decision making in anorganizationrespectively. It concludes by relating the
organizational change to gender inequality movement in the higher society and in the global
community. This paper reflects the present scenario of an organizational development involved
in the field of recruitment and selection and highlights of common mistakes made in the top
talent of the recruitment process.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Overview of External Recruitment and Selection Process, especially for top women...................4
Selection Process for Top Women:.................................................................................................5
Discussion of common mistakes made in the recruitment of top talent women’s..........................6
Analysis of the role of the Senior Leadership, Line Managers, and HRM in the Recruitment and
the Selection process (especially for women).................................................................................8
Recommendations on Recruiting and Selecting of top women.......................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References List..............................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The term Human Resource is considered one of the most important factors of an organizational
structure. It serves as a functional backbone in an organization. The success of every company
depends upon the skilled, innovative and the creative labour force. As all organization likely to
get skilled and innovative labour force the employee recruitment and selection is very crucial to
every organization.The hiring for top and talented women in the superior position of an
organization results in failure of gender-neutral language in the job ads. In many organization,
men have occupied the senior's management position which results in gender inequality and
severe inconvenience for women's to get recruited or hired. The process of recruiting talented
women faces several issues like single person interview, fails to check reports and references.
Many top and skilled women do not want to work in the top position as it faces sexual
harassment, gender discrimination, different recruitment structures for themandprejudice of
women illegitimacy.
Overview of External Recruitment and Selection Process, especially for top women
The term external recruitment means hiring people from outside the organization. The concept of
external recruitment generally takes place in the form of advertisement like ads in the
newspapers, employee referrals, telecasting and many more (Nielsen 2015, p.390). It fails to use
gender-neutral language in the job advertisement. There are some advantages relating to external
recruitment like a bigger pool of candidates and the chance of getting new skills whereas it
suffers from certain disadvantage like time-consuming and costly. The method of external
recruitment generally includes online recruitment, job boards, social media, job fairs, events and
recruitment agencies.In many multinational companies, the recruitment and the selection process
goes viral for top and talented women. There are very common issues that prevail in an