Chapter 5
Personnel Planning and Recruiting
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Explain the main techniques used in employment planning and forecasting.
List and discuss the main outside sources of candidates.
Effectively recruit job candidates.
Name and describe the main internal sources of candidates.
Develop a help wanted ad.
Explain how to recruit a more diverse workforce.
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The Recruitment and Selection Process
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Planning and Forecasting
Employment or Personnel Planning
The process of deciding what positions the firm will have to fill, and how to fill
them.
Succession Planning
The process of deciding how to fill the company’s most important executive jobs.
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Planning and Forecasting
Linking Employer’s Strategy to Plans
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Planning and Forecasting
Forecasting Personnel Needs
Trend Analysis
The study of a firm’s past employment needs over a period of years
to predict future needs.
Ratio Analysis
A forecasting technique for determining future staff needs by using
ratios between a causal factor and the number of employees needed
Scatter Plot
A graphical method used to help identify the relationship between
two variables.
Computerized
Forecasts
The use software packages to determine of future staff needs by
projecting sales, volume of production, and personnel required to
maintain a volume of output.
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Planning and Forecasting
Forecasting The Supply of Inside Candidates
Qualifications
Inventories
Manual or computerized records listing employees’ education,
career and development interests, languages, special skills, and so
on, to be used in selecting inside candidates for promotion.
Personnel
Replacement Charts
Company records showing present performance and promotability
of inside candidates for the most important positions.
Position
Replacement Card
A card prepared for each position in a company to show possible
replacement candidates and their qualifications.
Computerized
Information Systems
Computerized records listing employees’ …..
The Matter of Privacy
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Planning and Forecasting
Forecasting The Supply of Outside Candidates
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General economic condition
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Expected unemployment rate
How to find the needed data?
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Effective Recruiting
Employee Recruiting
Finding and/or attracting applicants for the employer’s open positions
Why recruiting is important?
Why recruiting is a complex
process?
How to organize the recruitment
function?
Measuring the recruiting
effectiveness
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Effective Recruiting
Recruiting yield pyramid
The historical arithmetic relationships between recruitment leads and invitees,
invitees and interviews, interviews and offers made, and offers made and offers
accepted.
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Internal Sources of Candidates
Internal Sources of Candidates
Hiring from Within
What are the advantages?
What are the disadvantages?
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Internal Sources of Candidates
Internal Sources of Candidates
Job Posting
Rehiring Former
Employees
Succession
Planning
Publicizing an open job to employees (often by literally posting it on
bulletin boards) and listing its attributes.
Some one who left the firm
The process of ensuring a suitable supply of successors for current
and future senior or key jobs.
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Outside Sources of Candidates
Outside Sources of Candidates
Hiring from outside the organization
What are the advantages?
What are the disadvantages?
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Outside Sources of Candidates
Outside Sources of Candidates
Recruiting via the
Internet
Advantages – disadvantages – ATS – effective internet ads and
systems
Advertising
The media – constructing the ad – employment ad and image
Employment
Agencies
Public and nonprofit agencies – agencies associated with nonprofit
organizations - private agencies
Temp Agencies and
Alternative Staffing
Benefits & costs – guidelines – alternative staffing
Offshoring/Outsourc
ing White-Collar and
Other Jobs
Main issues
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Outside Sources of Candidates
Outside Sources of Candidates
Executive Recruiters
Pros & cons - guidelines
On Demand
Recruiting Services
A service that provides short-term specialized recruiting to support
specific projects without the expense of retaining traditional search
firms
College Recruiting
On campus recruiting goals – on sites visits - Internship
Referrals and Walk
Ins
Pros and cons
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Outside Sources of Candidates
Outside Sources of Candidates
Recruiting source use and effectiveness
Improving productivity through HRIS: An integrated technology
approach to recruiting
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Recruiting A More Divers Workforce
Single Parents
Older Workers
Recruiting Minorities and Women
Welfare-to-Work
The Disabled
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Developing and Using Application Forms
Application Form
The form that provides information on education, prior work record, and skills.
Uses of information from applications
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