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RECRUITMENT AND THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Recruitment is the process of identifying, attracting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and onboarding employees. Recruitment involves creating a pool of qualified candidates from which a company can choose the most suitable individuals for specific job roles. The recruitment process includes job advertising, screening applications, conducting interviews, and making job offers. Recruitment can be external, where candidates are sourced from outside the organisation through a recruitment agency.
RECRUITMENT
WHAT IS RECRUITMENT?
Recruitment is the process of identifying, attracting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and onboarding employees. Recruitment involves creating a pool of qualified candidates for which a compnay can choose the most suitable individuals for specific job roles. The recruitment process includes job advertising, screening applications, conducting interviews, and making job offers. Recruitment can be externals, where candidates are sourced from outside the organisation through a recruitment agency.
WHAT IS THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS?
The recruitment process is a series of steps that organisation use to attract, identify, and hire new employees. The recruitment process involves job analysis and planning, sourcing candidates, screening and shortlisting, interviewing, selection, job offer, hiring and onboarding, follow-up and evaluation.Kontak Recruitment generally uses a 10 step recruiting process to fulfil the hiring needs of our portfolio of clients.
WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (HRM)?
Human Resource Management focuses on effectively utilizing people, with the company's HR policies reflecting a commitment to people and significantly contributing to employee attraction and satisfaction. The company culture, or the way things are done within the organisation, plays a crucial role in its success. For a company to thrive, it is essential that the individual employee's personality align with the company's overall culture.
COMPANIES THAT SUCCESSFULLY HIRE AND EMPLOY CANDIDATES
An individual employee takes up employment with a company for the potential that it offers them in reaching their personal and career goals. Individual employees should be he focus of a company, without peope a company cannot function and therefore employing the right people would be a company's best us of it's most important asset.
STEPS IN THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS:
The recruitment process is the process of identifying the job vacancy, analyzing the job requirements, reviewing applications, headhunting, screening, shortlisting and selecting the right candidate to fill the vacant job, it is the process of fulfilling your recruitment requirements. The recruitment process begins by first identifying a need for a staff member, evaluating the need for the position and followed by recruitment for the job role by following the steps of recruitment.
10 STEPS IN THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS:
STEP 1: CONDUCTING A JOB ANALYSIS
Identifying the hiring and recruiting need by
Evaluating why the vacancy has been created and why there is a need for a new employee.
What the level of the job is.
What the skills required of the person who will be fulfilling the role should be.
What the job responsibilities of the vacancy will be.
STEP 2: RECRUITMENT PLAN
The recruitment plan includes a strategy on how to publicize the new job vacancy
Establishing what the criteria is for initial screening.
What the interview process will be.
Who will be conducting the interviews.
What the timeline for recruitment and filling the role will be.
STEP 3: WRITING THE JOB DESCRIPTION
A good job description and person specification is essential
Include key responsibilities in the job description
What the role entails
Challenges and opportunities
Include skills, knowledge, education, experience, qualifications and personal characteristics required from the ideal candidate.
Clearly establish what is desirable and what is essential, highlight the capabilities need for the job. The job description should include information regarding salary and any benefits.
STEP 4: ADVERTISING THE JOB VACANCY
Choosing where to advertise the job role
Job sites
Social media
Industry publications
Company website
Advertising the job externally consists of utilizing a combination of the company's website, social media platforms, job posting sites, industry publications, local newspaper advertisements and word of mouth recruitment.
STEP 5: RECRUIT THE JOB POSITION: APPLICATION SCREENING AND HEADHUNTING
1. Applications - review applications
2. Headhunting
Recruiters and hiring managers should at this point reach out to the desirable candidates. Active recruitment will help generate applications from potential candidates who are not actively searching for a new job but fit the job role. This is the stage where recruiters look for candidates who are appropriately qualified for the job opening. The goal is to eliminate the applicants who definitely do not fit the profile sought and to identify those that you want to interview.
STEP 6: SCREENING
Phone interviews and initial screening
The screening process involves evaluating the candidate applications and establishing if they qualify to progress further. Phone interviews will determine if applicants possess the required qualifications and attributes to fill the position and align with a company's culture and values. Prepare appropriate questions and shortlist desired candidates.
STEP 7: INTERVIEWS
One on one, face to face or video interviews
The interview will typically focus on an applicants experience, skills, work history and availability. The purpose of the interview is to clear up any discrepancies, sell the candidate on the job position and broadly explain the compensation package. The goal of an interview is to evaluate the qualifications, skills, culture fit for the specific position. The interview is the meeting in which the applicant is asked questions and can ask questions to determine their suitability for a particular job role.
STEP 8: BACKGROUND SCREENING
Background screening and reference checking
Background checks review a candidates criminal records, verify employment history and eligibility. When referencing professional references are contacted to confirm employment details. Reference checks should verify any pertinent information shared by the candidate about previous employment and include verifying job performance, experience, responsibilities, work place performance etc.
STEP 9: JOB OFFER
Top candidate identified - job offer is extended
Once a top candidate is identified the company should extend a job offer. Offering the job to a candidate should include calling them initially to give them the good news and should be followed up with an offer letter.
The compensation plan offered should be clear and unambiguous. The offer letter should include the salary, benefits, paid time off, start date, potential severance pay, working remotely policy, included company equipment and other terms and conditions of employment.
STEP 10: HIRING
Hiring and on-boarding
Once the desired candidate accepts the job offer they are hired. All the necessary paperwork needs to be completed to ensure that the candidate is successfully included on the company payroll. On-boarding the new employee is a welcoming and professional way will help them to integrate in a manner that lays the ground work for a long term productive working relationship. This is essential to ensure that your new employee feels welcome and part of the team before they have even stepped through the door. The new employee should quickly be introduced to their new colleagues and any appropriate training should be set up and seen through swiftly.
The recruitment process is not easy to do alone and can be time consuming. Recruiting and hiring is time intensive. The major benefit of outsourcing your recruitment process to Kontak Recruitment, a professional recruitment agency, is that we understanding the recruiting and hiring process and can effectively filter and screen candidates to secure the appropriate candidate for your job role.
As a leading recruitment agency, our top recruitment agents have extensive experience in placing candidates in permanent and contract job roles. Should you be looking to recruit and hire staff, submit a vacancy or contact us to discuss your recruitment requirements.
RECRUITMENT AGENCIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
RECRUITMENT AGENCY IN JOHANNESBURG
Our recruitment agency offers an outsourced staffing & recruitment service to employers who are looking to hire permanent, contract, freelance or entry level/graduate staff. Our core focus as recruiters is to deliver a hiring solution by simplifying the recruitment process and increasing the efficiency for employers. We enjoy watching our clients grow their businesses.
RECRUITMENT AGENCY IN DURBAN
Our consultants have a strong reputation in the recruitment & employment market with both employers and job seekers which we strive to maintain. Kontak offers a responsible and reliable external outsourced recruitment solution to employers of all sizes in assisting with finding the right staff for permanent, contract, freelance and entry levels jobs.
RECRUITMENT AGENCY IN CAPE TOWN
Kontak has been a market leader in the recruitment industry for over 15 years in Johannesburg and have now expanded to the Cape regions with offices based in the Eastern Cape. Our consultants are committed to providing employers in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and surrounding areas with the same level of service we have provided to our clients in Johannesburg over the years.
RECRUITMENT AGENCY IN PRETORIA
As a market leader in recruitment and staffing solutions in Johannesburg. Building on our success, we have expanded our expert recruitment services to Pretoria. Our dedicated Pretoria consultants are committed to providing employers in Pretoria with the same high level of service that has defined our work in Johannesburg.
Kontak Recruitment Agency's expertise spans Executive, IT & Telecoms, Accounting & Finance, Admin, HR, Digital Marketing, SEO & Ecommerce, Sales & Marketing, Medical and Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing & Logistics, Hospitality, Retail, and Graduate posts.