PLANNING AND RECRUTMENT

Recruitment plan

Recruitment plan refers to a prearranged strategy for hiring employees. It acts as a timeline for
companies to find qualififed applicants without causing downtime for the company.

Recruitment plan identifies the goals for a particular position.

Steps and components of recruitment plans

Recruiment plan consists of five general steps:

1. Identifing the job opening

2. Deciding how to fill the job opening

3. Identifing the target group

4. Notifing the target group

5. Meeting with the candidates

The recruitment plan components include:

- announcement

- recruiting timeline

- advertising plan

- interview schedule

- assessment tools

- background checks

- interview plans

- references

Benefits of recruitment plans

Recruitment plans make the hiring process smoother and act as a qualifying guideline for applicants.
This helps employers to ensure that they are hiring individuals with the qualifications and skills needed
to do the job.
The biggest benefit is keeping the company on its course and running. With a good recruitment plan
companies are able to find qualified employees in a timely manner preventing lapses in employment,
such as having positions that need to be filled and no one able to do the work in the meantime.

The Human Resource Planning is a process of forecasting the organization’s demand for and supply of
manpower needs in the near future.

What Is Human Resource Planning (HRP)?

Human resource planning (HRP) is the continuous process of systematic planning ahead to achieve
optimum use of an organization's most valuable asset—quality employees. Human resources planning
ensures the best fit between employees and jobs while avoiding manpower shortages or surpluses.

Understanding Human Resource Planning (HRP)

Human resources planning allows companies to plan ahead so they can maintain a steady supply of
skilled employees. That's why it is also referred to as workforce planning. The process is also used to
help companies evaluate their needs and to plan ahead to meet those needs.

Human resource planning needs to be flexible enough to meet short-term staffing challenges while
adapting to changing conditions in the business environment over the longer term. HRP starts by
assessing and auditing the current capacity of human resources.

To satisfy their objectives, HR managers have to make plans to do the following:

Find and attract skilled employees.

Select, train, and reward the best candidates.

Cope with absences and deal with conflicts.

Promote employees or let some of them go.

Successful recruitment is a direct reflection of the validity and professionalism of your business.
Employing the right people for your business is the most important part of your organization. It is
essential to have a good recruitment process to attract the right kind of employees for your business
needs. Your recruitment process should be cost effective as well as time effective. Recruiting and
training can be expensive and time consuming so when you are recruiting, make sure that you are
making the right choices.
A good recruitment process can minimize the time involved in the searching, interviewing, hiring and
training. It can streamline these processes and make your search for viable candidates much more
efficient. It is very important to build a positive image to your customers, peers and competitors.

What is Recruitment?

Recruitment is the process of searching for candidates to interview and hire for open positions within
your organization. Think of the importance of recruitment in terms of completing a 5,000-piece jigsaw
puzzle. You categorize all the puzzle pieces by pattern and then begin assembling the puzzle.