4.10 Recruitment Importance

In today’s workplace, recruitment impacts an organization’s competitive success. Hiring the wrong person for a job can be costly to organizations. Therefore, highly talented and motivated employees offer a competitive advantage: a firm’s ability to add value to the company through its assets (one being its human resources) and can lower its costs. Companies’ success is at risk when poorly hired employees have the wrong skills and/or experience.

Employers also recognize a diverse workforce leads to success. Some companies introduce employment equity programs to correct an imbalance of a diversified employee workforce. Human Resources departments monitor their recruitment plans to proactively ensure they increase their employee pool with workers from varied cultures, religions, genders, capabilities, etc. Choosing a pool of applicants from various backgrounds expands the pool of talent and offers employers a great choice of applicants. It also can improve the employer’s image as a credible and diversified employer.

After we have finished the recruiting process, we can begin the selection process!

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