Question

Brief & one liner answers:

Distinguish between recruitment sources and recruitment methods.

What online recruitment methods are available?

What is meant by the policy of promotion from within?

What are some of the hiring standards to avoid?

Answer 1

Recruitment sources mean how a candidate did came to know about the opened position. HR manager’s wants to know track what are the sources which are giving quality employees. Recruitment method means how the HR manager attracted the candidates and advertised. Recruitment methods are online job boards and websites, Recruitment agencies, consultants, Press advertising, Professional referral schemes, Job fairs, social Networks etc.

Here are some online recruitment methods available-

• Online job boards and websites
• Social Network sites.
• Applicant tracking systems
• Video conferencing

Policy of promotion from within means when a company promotes an employee of the company for a opened vacancy and does not recruit employees from outside.

• The job picture should be defined clearly.
• Not creating a scorecard for interview properly.
• Interviewer failed to ask open ended questions.
• Interviewer did not listen properly.