What should be the real asset of any company? No, it’s not the finance and the infrastructure, it should be the people. Right kind of recruitment will make a perfect company. Today, finding perfect employees and retaining them in the competitive world, has become the most concerned areas of the company. Is recruitment and selection similar? What is the ‘perfect’ recruitment and selection?

The scrutinizing process of choosing a desired candidate from the recruitment pool is called as a selection. So, then what should be the ‘perfect’ recruitment and selection? Well nowadays, the human resource department is focusing more on retention and employee satisfaction, rather than the volume recruitment. Due to ever-increasing global opportunities and employee poaching, HRM has now started stepping into new trends by analyzing the market and by taking the adequate steps instantly before it’s too late.

These days, picking up the right candidate at the right time for your organization should be largely emphasized. For achieving the company’s planned objective, the HR personnel should update themselves with the latest market trends and raise warning situations. Lack of skills and new technology can put considerable pressure on the employer for perfect recruitment. Resourcing strategies, techniques and analysis will yield in the best quality recruit, even without taking help from the specialist recruiter or recruitment organization.

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Perfect selection determines the present and the future growth of the organization, as people are the base pillars of the company. By filling up the vacancies appropriately after the promotion, transfer, termination and retirement; there should be trainings and proper attention over the new hire.

What is the role of HR in perfect selection?

•    Help yourself to increase the success rate by reducing the selection processes and categorizing them with overqualified and under qualified job seekers
•    Recruit the required candidates at the minimum costs
•    Reject the possible attrition (the people who can switch over a short period of time)
•    Maintain the company’s social obligations pertaining to the workforce
•    Identify and short-list the appropriate candidates carefully
•    Analyze the accurate and cost effective recruitment sources

Always remember that the recruitment process largely dependents on the publicity, reaching up to the right pool and the perfect candidate. Once you get the desired candidate, retention should be the next focus, still the job of an HR doesn’t stop there…There are more things to do.