Effectiveness of Recruitment and Selection Process in Various Information Technology Companies in Chennai

Abstract

Recruitment is the discovering of potential candidates for actual or anticipated organizational vacancies. Or, from another perspective, it is a linking activity bringing together those with jobs to fill and those seeking job. The ideal recruitment effort will attract a large number of qualified applicants who will take the job if it is offered. It should also provide information so that unqualified applicants can self select themselves out of job candidacy; this is, a good recruiting program should attract the qualified and not attract the unqualified. This dual objective will minimize the cost of processing unqualified candidates. Recruitment is nothing but the process of searching the candidates for employment and then stimulating them for jobs in the organization. It is the activity that links the employees and the job seekers. It is also defined as the process of finding and attracting capable applicants for employment. It is the pool of applicants from which the new employees are selected. It can also be defined as a process to discover sources of manpower to meet the requirement of the staffing schedule and to employ effective measures for attracting the manpower in adequate numbers in order to facilitate the effective selection of an efficient working force.