Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 5/e

Why Effective Recruiting is Important

Learning Objective 2

1. Answer the question: “Why is effective recruiting important?”

Assuming the employer authorizes the manager to fill a position, the next step is to build an applicant pool. 27 Employee recruiting means finding and/or attracting applicants for the employer’s open positions.

employee recruiting

Finding and/or attracting applicants for the employer’s open positions.

Recruiting is important. If only two candidates apply for two openings, you may have little choice but to hire them. But if 10 or 20 applicants appear, you can use tools like interviews and tests to screen out all but the best. More than twice as many large U.S. employers administer pre-hire screening tests than they did ...