Project on Recruitment and Selection in Organizations: A Review

This project focuses on the crucial aspects of recruitment and selection within organizations, emphasizing their impact on overall performance and the attainment of organizational goals. The project begins by highlighting the significance of effective recruitment and selection practices, including attracting top talent and ensuring employee retention. It explores the core concepts, research questions, and key search terms related to the topic. A literature review is conducted, incorporating secondary sources and scholarly articles to provide a comprehensive understanding of the current trends and challenges in recruitment and selection. The project examines the role of recruitment and selection as a human resource function and its importance in ensuring organizational competitiveness. It also addresses the need for innovative strategies to improve recruitment and retention of employees. The project also includes references to relevant scholarly articles, providing a foundation for further exploration of the subject.

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Introduction and Relevance of the Topic
Recruitment and selection is regarding getting the best sources, hiring of best talents, and
ensuring that an organization is kept competitive on the contemporary job markets and also
ensuring that best employees are retained by an organization (Almeida & Fernando, 2017). As an
essential Human resource function, recruitment and selection is indeed one of the major activities
that have a significant impact on the performance of any firm based on the terms of attainment of
the ultimate goals. This topic is quite important in the profession because not only will it help in
the identification of the current selection and recruitment methods that have been adopted by
organizations but it also helps in the identification of the numerous challenges that are
encountered and how they can be resolved (Collings, Mellahi, Cascio, 2017).
Literature Review
The research proposal will make use of various sources of literature which will include
among others secondary sources such as websites. One of the major sources of secondary data
that is linked with the issue of Recruitment and selection in organizations is:
https://issuu.com/sanjaykumarguptaa/docs/project-report-recruitment-and-selection-
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Research Questions
 What can organization do to ensure that best employees are recruited into the
organization?
 What should be done to ensure that best employees are retained in an organization?
 What selection and recruitment practices can be used in ensuring that well qualified
employees are recruited into the organization?

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 What are some of the barriers to effective recruitment and selection processes in an
organization?
The Key search Terms
 Selection
 recruitment
Three Reviewed Scholarly Articles from the search
 Ployhart, R.E., Schmitt, N. and Tippins, N.T., 2017. Solving the Supreme Problem: 100
years of selection and recruitment at the Journal of Applied Psychology. Journal of
Applied Psychology, 102(3), p.291.
 Rees, G. and Smith, P. eds., 2017. Strategic human resource management: An
international perspective. Sage.
 Lacey, R.J., Wilkie, R., Wynne-Jones, G., Jordan, J.L., Wersocki, E. and McBeth, J.,
2017. Evidence for strategies that improve recruitment and retention of adults aged 65
years and over in randomised trials and observational studies: a systematic review. Age
and ageing, 46(6), pp.895-903.
Two sentences combining the three articles
Recruitment and retention are vital human resource processes that should be embraced by
all organizations. Effective selection and recruitment practices will thus ensure that
numerous problems in the personnel department are resolved.

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References
Almeida, S., & Fernando, M. (2017). Making the cut: occupation-specific factors influencing
employers in their recruitment and selection of immigrant professionals in the
information technology and accounting occupations in regional Australia. The
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(6), 880-912.
Collings, D. G., Mellahi, K., & Cascio, W. F. (Eds.). (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Talent
Management. Oxford University Press.