HR Recruitment involves careful planning and selection of candidates based on their skill set, overall profile, years of experience and relevance to the job vacancy. However, there are other tasks that HR consultants work on mainly/ must do are:
- Job Analysis & Design: Writing a good JD is essential to attract the best employees.
- Wages and salaries: Negotiating a fair salary package to motivate employees.
- Industrial relations: Initiating communication between organization and employees.
- Career Development: To accomplish the objectives of a business, HR personnel conduct various training sessions.
- Reward Management: HR personnel must genuinely evaluate and justify performance of employees.
- Employee Retention: HR personnel must initiate practices that stop employees to change jobs frequently and to enjoy work.
What Happens in HR Recruitment?
- A Vacancy has to be Filled
- HR Personnel analysis the requirement and creates specific pointers to fulfill the task at hand
- A job description is written in tune with the employer and sent out to various ad post channels.
- A job specification is mentioned in which qualification, expertise, niche etc is mentioned.
- Newspapers, social media and online job portals are utilized for advertisement.
- Upon seeing the ad, candidates fill or apply for the position via call, message or email.
- HR personnel calls out the shortlisted profiles and call them up for interviews.
- Selected candidates are notified and vacancy is closed.
Apart from the traditional approach to recruitment, recruiters also believe and practice a thorough reference check and then offer the formal employment letter. Some of them provide training sessions for aspiring candidates so that they can appear for the interviews in premium agencies. However, for those companies who are looking out for HR recruitment services from a well-known brand, they should be willing to check few things before hiring.
- Which kind of services are they providing? Contingency, retained or both?
- How many years are they into recruitment?
- Are they providing any value added services like HR Advisory or training courses to employees?
- Do they only recruit or provide in-house HR assistance like organizational designing as well?
- Are they willing to play a role of an extended HR team?
- How affordable are they?
- What is their market reputation?
- Feedback from their clients.













