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Is recruitment genuinely carried out to find the right candidate or it is done through only reference?

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Question ajoutée par John Peter Rajappa , Senior HR Executive , Rainbow Mechanical & Electrical Works
Date de publication: 2016/04/04
Nuridin Islam Diab
par Nuridin Islam Diab , Training Manager , Bbusinesss LLE

This question should be company / industry specific. There are those two types of recruitment depending which company you're talking about. In general mostly done in a genuine way to find the right candidate. 

ACHMAD SURJANI
par ACHMAD SURJANI , General Manager Operations , Sinar Jaya Group Ltd

Undertaking recruitment is an important step when starting or growing your business. When you decide to employ someone, you need to determine what you want the employee to do and what skills you require from them. Also consider:

Before you decide to advertise the job, prepare a job description that defines the responsibilities and functions of the job. This will help you identify the knowledge, experience and skills required for the job as well as the interview questions you might ask.

Advertise the job

Before you advertise

Before you advertise a job remember that, by law, you must not use discriminatory language in the description that may exclude potential employees on the basis of race, colour, sex, sexual preference, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, family or carer's responsibility, pregnancy, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin.

Visit our page on equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination in the workplace to learn more about your responsibilities as an employer.

How to advertise the job

You can advertise the job in a variety of ways. These may include:

  • placing the Ad on your website
  • local newspapers
  • online through a recruitment website
  • in a trade or industry magazine
  • through social media
  • word of mouth.

You may also choose to use a recruitment agency to assist you in the process. If you decide to use a recruitment agency, talk to your business colleagues or partners to find out whether there is one they recommend.

Also consider using the Australian JobSearch External Site website when advertising your position.

By registering for JobSearch, External Site you'll have access to features designed to help you advertise your job, including:

  • the ability to advertise the position for free
  • the ability to search for staff based on criteria in your advertisement
  • thousands of job seekers actively using JobSearch each month
  • a personalised Dashboard which allows you to track all job vacancies and application traffic from one location.
Conduct an interview

Before conducting an interview, you'll need to shortlist applicants based on their application. You will also need to decide if you will have anyone helping you in the interview process.

When interviewing for the position, ensure that the questions you ask are related to the position advertised. You will want to ask questions that help you understand the skills, qualifications and experience of potential applicants as well as their fit within the team. Just as when you advertised the job, you must not use discriminatory language or questions within the interview.

When conducting the interview, use a standard set of questions for each applicant. This will help you and your interview panel members when comparing and selecting the right applicant for your business. Having a scribe or person recording the responses during this interview may help you when reviewing later. 

Select the right applicant

Following the interview, consider contacting the applicant's referees to check any claims made during the interview. This may help in gaining you get a better understanding on the person's abilities and past experience within the workplace.

The referees may have been supplied by the applicant at interview, but it's always a good idea to contact the applicant to confirm that you wish to contact their referees and that you have the correct contact details.

Once you have decided on the right applicant, you will need to contact them directly to offer them the position. If not previously discussed, you may discuss the salary, conditions and workplace benefits and entitlements as part of employment. If the employee accepts your offer for the position, you can then go ahead with preparing the formal documentation and offer of employment.

Saifeldin Osman Ali
par Saifeldin Osman Ali , Human Resources Consultant , Aldoha investment CO LTD Sudan

Recruitment is the process of having the right person, in the right place, at the right time. It is crucial to organizational performance. Recruitment is a critical activity, not just for the HR team but also for line managers who are increasingly involved in the selection process. All those involved in recruitment activities should be equipped with the appropriate knowledge and skills.

The importance of diversity should be taken into account at each stage of the recruitment process. Processes and systems should be regularly reviewed to ensure hidden bias is removed and to make certain talent is not being blocked from entering an organization. Everyone taking part in activities such as short-listing and interviewing should be aware of relevant legislation, therefore recruitment must be carried out genuinely to achieve goal and objective of the company.Reference checking allows us to obtain independent information about our candidates’ previous historyand information HR manager gathers during a reference check is directly related to the key selection criteria of the role they have applied for and allows us to validate the information providedbythecandidate at the interview, its conformation about candidate background .

 

 

Yogesh Singh
par Yogesh Singh , Director HR , Blue Ocean Management Training & Consultancy

The biggest strength of any company is hiring great people, Whig can only be done by strategic approach towards recruitment. One right person can make or break a department or on Sr. Level entire organization. Follow this to achieve results: 1. Have talent acquisition strategy 2. Design work, JD, compentencies, and queationaire. 3. Never ever hire weak candidates.

Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi
par Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi , Shared Services Supervisor , Saudi Musheera Co. Ltd.

agree with mr.nuridin it is dependent on co. type and normally should be choose the perfect and right candidate for this opportunity

 

Ghada Eweda
par Ghada Eweda , Medical sales hospital representative , Pfizer pharmaceutical Plc.

Certainly, the concept of reference checking hasn’t only been thrown around HR departments and recruitment agencies in recently but now it hits the mainstream media. However, Conducting reference checks is an absolutely vital part of any recruitment process. And no matter how amazing a candidate may be on paper, and regardless of how impressive they may have been when you interviewed them, no recruiter should ever let the reference checking process slip through the cracks.

Why do we reference check

It’s pretty obvious that reference checking allows us to obtain independent information about our candidates’ previous on the job performance. The information HR manager gathers during a reference check is directly related to the key selection criteria of the role they have applied for and allows us to validate the information provided by the candidate at the interview. Referencing also allows us to identify ‘grey areas’ from the candidate’s CV or from their interview such as the reasons they may have left a past position. It’s frightening to think of the number of recruiters who will actually rely on the feedback gained from a2-minute phone conversation; or who might make a placement without even carrying out any reference checks at all.

They’re usually pretty badly burnt within the guarantee period since it doesn’t take long for the client to realize the candidate isn’t quite as experienced as they had first assumed.

When do we reference check

There are candidates out there who look great on paper but who perform poorly during interview. But there are also candidates who perform very well during interview but once they are on the job it’s a different story altogether. CVs can be embellished, and it’s even possible to become a ‘master interviewee’ with a bit of coaching or plenty of practice. The good news is that there is a way for you to ensure that the person you initially discovered on paper and the candidate you then thought performed strongly at interview is actually who they say they are. Before HRM makes an offer to a candidate, you should really carry out two verbal reference checks. It’s the perfect way for you to understand how your candidate really performs on the job (the good and maybe even the not so good) before your client finds out … perhaps the hard way. But don’t conduct the references too early in the recruitment process.

Conclusion

As a recruiter if you’ve met a rockstar candidate, you used to conduct the1st reference as ap so you could include the feedback from the referee when you was selling the candidate to your client.

you’ve then conduct the2nd reference when you knew your client was serious about making an offer. It’s always a relief when you hear positive feedback about the candidate you are so desperate to place. But it’s still important to take notes during your calls with past employers and provide a detailed summary to your client. If one of the two reference checks is glowing and the other is mediocre or even negative, you should try to conduct a third check just to ensure you iron out any disparity.

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