Reflection on My Recruitment Process

Running head: REFLECTION ON MY RECRUITMENT PROCESS
REFLECTION ON MY RECRUITMENT PROCESS
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Introduction
The recruitment process includes attracting the attracting the candidates, short listing
them, selecting the suitable candidates and appointing them for suitable in various job roles
within the organization (Hawranik and Pangman 2016). There are different methods for selecting
the right candidates for the right job. The recruitment process for the Information technology
involves an IT recruiter who carries out the work of laisoning between the company and the
clients and is paid for the same. These people select candidates for both contract workers and in-
house candidates. The main aim of the paper is to highlight the recruitment process for the field
of IT, the analysis of the MBTI test, international experience related to the same field and the
importance of ethics in the field of IT.
Recruitment process used in Information technology
The recruitment process for the Information technology field includes various stages.
These can differ depending upon the company however; there are a few steps that are common
for all the organizations recruiting the Information technology and application development.
These stages include: identifying the sources from which the suitable applications can be got.
These can be portals, application intake and others, after that the second stage is recruitment
which includes pre-screening, screening, various types of tests including written tests and others
and various rounds of interview. The next step includes hiring of the right candidate such as
carrying out a final interview, various types of assessment tests and reference checks. Other
types of checks area also carried out. These days a psychometric test is carried out in order to
understand the emotional intelligence of the candidate. More than the skills and knowledge of

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the subject, it is important to measure the emotional intelligence because this gives an idea to the
company about the emotional stability of the candidate (Johnson, Lukaszewski and Stone 2016).
LinkedIn is the professional reputable site for the purpose of identifying the suitable candidate
for various job roles in organization. Through LinkedIn organization can look for candidates that
they need by going through their profiles. The skills testing imply carrying out tests such as soft
skills and technical skills tests. There can be tests requiring the candidates to show their job-
specific skills.
The critical analysis of the MBTI type test
I gave the Myers Briggs type indicator test while making application for job in one of the
reputed IT companies because it represents my emotional intelligence and behavioral
characteristics. The main purpose of using this test is to understand the behavioral variations due
to our judgments and perceptions (Schwalbe 2015). There are various elements of the test on the
basis of which our behavior is understood. These characteristics can be extroversion or
introversion, intuition or sensing, feeling or thinking and perception or judgment. In my test I got
INFP or introversion, intuition, feeling and perceiving. It means that I prefer focusing on myself
rather than the world and so I have got a high score n introversion, I am more intuitive than
sensing this means that I have the habit of adding meaning to the facts and do not trust the facts
alone. I go by my feelings and not by my thinking that means I have a habit of carrying out
activities I feel is good according to me and I take decisions based on my feeling than logic. My
high score on perception shows that in case of any conversation with others I feel open to accept
information as against judgment. I am a creative person and so I feel that I take all decisions
based on my feelings rather than logic and I have good communication skills but according to the