Problems of Recruitment: Solutions in Health, Canada, and Social Media

This essay delves into the multifaceted problems encountered in the field of recruitment, examining issues across various contexts. It begins by highlighting the challenges faced in recruiting and retaining participants for health trials, including time constraints, lack of participation, and protocol incompatibilities. The essay proposes solutions such as improved program communication, incentives, and informed consent. It then shifts focus to the Canadian context, addressing issues within the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, such as cultural integration and proper training, advocating for stricter licensing and cultural sensitivity training. Finally, the essay explores how social media recruitment can alleviate the economic burden of traditional methods by reducing costs and broadening the applicant pool. The essay emphasizes the importance of proper background checks and effective communication of job roles and organizational goals to improve recruitment and retention procedures.

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Problems of Recruitment
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Recruitment in general term is the enlisting of new people for a common motive or job
role (Armstrong & Taylor, 2014). The recruiters face a number of issues while recruiting people
for a certain process. The essay discusses the problems faced by the recruiters and their
solutions.
The recruitment and retention of people in health trials is a major issue faced by the
health experts. The retention rate of the recruits is also low with a drop rate of about 20%. The
health experts face different issues while performing continuous recruitment due to high dropout
rate. The first issue is time as the health researchers need to take time from clinical and research
practices for recruitment for the trial, which is also time bound (Richards & Hallberg, 2015).
The people do not attach much importance to these trails, there is lack of participation, and there
is a dearth of experienced research staff. There is incompatibility between trial protocols and the
clinical practice. To improve the recruitment in the field simple solutions are given. Firstly, the
details of the program can be properly communicated and instead of opt in opt out method proper
information can be collected. Secondly, since giving financial gains for the process is considered
unethical other things like gifts and vouchers can be given in return. Thirdly, the patient can be
informed in advance about the intricate details of the program and the procedure so that the
participants give an informed consent.
There is an issue faced among the Canadian society, which revolves around the cohesion
among the migrant workers and the general population of the state (Taylor & Foster, 2015).
Canada is a state with open door policies to the migrants in the country. It is facing major issues
due to its Temporary Foreign Worker Program. The people coming from different background
face the issue of acceptance in the society. The local population sees the immigrants as threats to
the economy and often the recruitment takes place without the proper licensing and the training

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procedure, which is detrimental for the workers of the immigrant population. As a solution, the
licensing bodies should keep a strict eye on the immigrant population chosen to work in this
program (Strauss & McGrath, 2017). Moreover, the cultural and the shift in the work
environment should be fulfilled with proper training of the work and local language to the
immigrants. The program should focus on the recruitment of able candidates so can fit in the
Canadian society.
According to a Swedish research on Social site recruitment procedures, the traditional
methods of recruitment negatively affect the economy of the organization (Chan & Kjellberg,
2017). The traditional recruitment methods use a large workforce and the cost of recruitment of
the employee cannot be borne by the organization if the employee does not work for a stipulated
amount of time. In a country like Canada where the people are socially active the online
recruitment will help the organizations. The social media not being used to the full potential for
the recruitment of the employees is another issue faced by the organization, which makes the
recruitment a recurring cost for a large organization. The study suggests the usage of the social
media will improve the recruitment process in a number of ways. Firstly, it will decrease the cost
of advertising and make the background checks easy. The job will have a large number of
applicants from different backgrounds improving the talent pool of recruitment of the
organization.
There are various improvements in the recruitment and selection in these fields. The
health test volunteers are now recruited by organizations that focus on serious candidates who
volunteer. The recruitment of the workers in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program should
focus on the proper and legal recruitment of individuals under the Canadian immigration
authorities ("Canada Immigration, Visa, Canadian Citizenship & Permanent Residence", 2017).

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The recruitment issues faced in the social media recruiting are being resolved as in the present
times majority of the population is active on social media due to high internet penetration.
The organizations can improve their recruitment and retention procedure in various other
ways. To a health volunteer the importance of the research and the issues regarding it should be
communicated. They include giving proper incentive and increment in salary to the employee.
The job role of the employee in the organization and the organizational goals should be clearly
explained. In the social recruitment, the background check of the employee should be properly
done with the available resources.

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