Effectiveness of Recruitment and Selection Strategies in Organization

HRM REPORT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Effectiveness of recruitment and selection strategies in organization........................................3
Talent management and staff development approaches..............................................................5
HR system and process..............................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is the strategic approach which looks at managing and
retaining the employee in the organization for longer period of time. This is generally designed
in organization to mazimise employee performance and get best out of employee in an
organization. Asda is a British supermarket retailer, headquartered in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Asda was founded in the year 1949 by the founder Noel Stockdale and J. W. Hindell. This report
highlights the different recruitment and selection strategy which is used by the cited firm to
improve effectivness of organization in long run. After that the organization highlights the
different actvity which is performed in the organization to manage the talent management in the
organization and also to improve the level of staff development in an organization. In the end the
report highlights the HR system and procedure in place within ASDA.
MAIN BODY
Effectiveness of recruitment and selection strategies in organization
Recruitment refers to the process in an organization which used to look at attracting,
shortlisting and appointing suitable candidate for different jobs within an organization. It is the
process which used to target at managing good amount of human resources in an organization.
There are two different type of recruitment which is performed in an organization i.e. internal
recruitment and external recruitment.
Internal recruitment is the process in which organization looks to fill the vacancy of an
organization by looking at exsiting workforce of an organization. Generally organization used to
take help of promotion and shifting in internal recruitment method. External recruitmet is the
type of recruitment in which organization used to look for the employee outside the business to
fill the open vacancy in an organization (Goldstein and et.al., 2017). In this type of recruitment
organization used to build a good sort of relation with different agency or used to directly invite
the application for the open vacancy in an organization.
Recruitment process alone does not help company in managing human resource sucefully in an
organization. Selection is the process which used to help Asda in getting best employee in an
organization. Selection is the process in Asda which used to look at selecting the best or right
candidate with the require qualification in an organization to carry out the different operation of

an organization. There are many different type of selection process which is used by Asda to
select the best candidate in an organization. Some of selection method are as follows:
Interview: It is the selection policy in which organization used to have a face to face or
telephonic conversesion with the employee in the organization. In this method organization
representative used to ask the variety of question from the candidate and used to chack the
amount of knowledge and skill which is possess by that candidate (Islam, 2018).
Test: It is another selection method in which organization used to condut the variety of
test of candidate to check the skill or ability which is possess by candidate. This is the selection
method on the basis of which the viability of candidate is test by organization. To decide the
salary or wages to be offered to candidate.
Looking at Asda operation, organization used to use combination of both internal and external
recruitment method to recrruit employee in an organization. Asda also uses test and interview as
a selection method to select the employee for an organization.
There are many different type of recruitment and selection strategy which is used by
organization to improve quality of human resource in an organization. Some of the recruitment
and selection strategy used by Asda and their effectiveness are as follows:
Recruitment Strategy
Employer brand: Asda used to create a good image of a company in the eye of the
employee in and outside organization. This eventually used to help the company in getting better
number of applicants to fullfill the position in an organization. To build a good employer brand
organization used to promote variety of activity. For example: Organization used to follow the
equality act in organization, as Asda always used to recruit the employee on the basis of skill
possess by them and also used to provide equall oppourtunity to all the employee to showcase
their ability. This eventually used to help the organization in building good employer brand and
also help organization in getting better number of applicant (Holm and Haahr, 2018).
Application tracking system: It is the another recruitment strategy which is used by an
organization to recruit and maintain good amount of human resource in an organization. It is the
technique in which the Asda used to automates the process of job posting and finding qualified
talent in an organization. This help the organization in saving the time in an organization and
organization used to get best talent on a go. For doing the same Asda has build the separate team
in an organization and that team used to operate all the function of this software.