Abstract

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, organizations have to respond quickly to requirements for people. Hence, it is important to have a well-defined recruitment policy in place, which can be executed effectively to get the best fits for the vacant positions. Selecting the wrong candidate or rejecting the right candidate could turn out to be costly mistakes for the organization. Selection is one area where the interference of external factors is minimal. Hence the HR department can use its discretion in framing its selection policy and using various selection tools for the best results. These caselets discuss the importance of having an effective recruitment and selection policy. They discuss the importance of a good selection process that starts with gathering complete information about the applicant from his application form and ends with inducting the candidate into the organization.

Learning Objectives

The case is structured to achieve the following Learning Objectives:

• Challenges in the process of recruiting and selecting employees.

Keywords

Business environment, organizations, requirements, recruitment policy, the vacant positions, wrong candidate, rejecting, right candidate, costly, mistakes, external factors, minimal, HR department, selection policy, tools, gathering complete, information, applicant, application form, inducting