Recruitment and Selection Strategies for HiTech International Company

This report analyzes the recruitment and selection processes, focusing on the case of HiTech International, an IT company. It explores both internal and external recruitment methods, including promotions, recommendations, and transfers, as well as external strategies such as work experience placements and website development for attracting candidates. The report emphasizes the importance of internship programs and secondment for talent acquisition and employee development. It also discusses the significance of effective interview techniques and the overall selection process. The report provides a critical analysis of various approaches, offering recommendations for HiTech International to optimize its recruitment and selection strategies, considering factors like cost-effectiveness and market trends. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and suggests the adoption of appropriate techniques to meet staffing needs efficiently.

Recruitment
and
Selection

INTRODUCTION
The process of recruitment includes identifying the present and future
staffing needs of the organisation for every department, advertising for
the job profile to attract prospect applicants, selecting the desired person
form the pool of candidates according to the required knowledge,
qualifications, skills and talents as well as experience.
As stated by Rees and Rumbles (2010), it is a lengthy process involving
time and money for the company which can occur on a regular basis if
proper retaining methods are not applied. There are various methods
involved in this process which can benefit the company is implemented or
replaced.

CRITICAL ANALYSIS
HiTech International is a California based company which having one of
its headquarters near London.It is one the fastest growing IT based
companies which provides employment to more than 30000 people all
over the world and around 2500 in the London itself.
One of the special features of the company is that it provides solutions for
hardware and software problems to the corporate clients to enable them to
use the internet extensively along with other functions such as providing
equipments, packages to fulfil desired needs and after sales services.

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According to Taylor (2014), recruitment is a process of hiring the right
applicants for the right job. The process involves attracting, selecting and
appointing appropriate applicants for the job through various sources. The
company can use various sources available in the market for the
recruitment process which involves internal and external recruitment.
The methods of internal recruitment are:
Promotion

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As stated by McGraw (2011), the internal method of recruitment involves the methods which
helps in promoting better performance and increases efficiency in employees. This can prove
to be one of the best methods if the company does not desire to spend too much amount and
time on recruitment and selection process. A few approaches which can be used by HiTech
International for low cost recruitment are:
Promotions- The method of promotion is one the main techniques adopted by the internal
recruitment process.
It involves upgrading existing employee to a higher job position or higher pay
grade or both. This can involve providing more responsibilities, facilities, status,
incentives, etc. This involves employees with required skills and training to
perform tasks for that job position.
This technique creates a sense of loyalty in employees towards the company as
well as motivation for other employees to perform better to acquire such results.
These activities provide a proof for other staff members for getting appropriate
results and appreciation for the hard work.

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This approach of internal recruitment is one of the best techniques
which can be used by HiTech International to fulfil vacant job
positions by incurring minimum cost and time. The company should
invest in the above techniques to acquire employees for its
expansion.
The method of recommendation can be adopted to use the
minimum resources and obtain desired results.
On the other hand, transferring process will help to train newly
appointed staff to get accustomed and familiar with job profile and
work culture.

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The factors to be considered while using this approach for HiTech
International are:
➲ The company is required to identify the talent in the market and
evaluate if it is worth all the cost and time needs to be invested in
the process.
➲ The offers created for the job position should be framed according
to the budget of the company but the rates prevailing in the
market also needs to be analysed and justified in the package.

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The recruitment and selection techniques are curcial for HiTec company.
As it help human resource manager to select the potential employees for
the organisation. There are many sources which can be used by manger to
recruit the employees while using the external recruitment approaches.
According to Absar, (2012), the external recruitment generates potential
and qualified candidates though the external source of employment. This
gives an opportunity to organisation to select the employees from
different areas with new ideas.

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The manager of HiTec should offer an work experience placement to students so
that they can begin with the internal training process. Through this the students
will able to update with the technology and it can be possible to bring the new
ideas from them to order to achieve the business objectives.
The company need to use proper resources so that candidates can get the best
opportunity for doing their work and they can receive the good work
experience once they are graduate.
According to McGraw, (2011), the manager who have selected the students
from graduates then company needs to organise many activities like
networking events, client exposure etc.
Through this it will be beneficial for the organisation to gain the competitive
advantage and satisfy the more needs of customers.
The manager should ensure that right people with the proper skills have been
recruited for the roles in the organisation.

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The company needs to develop a website for the customers as well as clients as
follows:
The presentation of the website page needs to be so that it attracts people
towards its career section.
It needs to attract and convince people about the advantage and desirability of
working in the organisation of HiTech.
The website should involve videos and pictures related to the working
environment and culture in the company which would capture the attention of
the candidate.
According to Cabellero and Walker (2010), the process of applying for the job
through online media should me made easy and direct for the applicants as a
complex process can create distraction and cause of preventing an appropriate
candidate from applying.