Experiencing Recruitment and Selection
Chapter One
Responsibility
The goal of recruitment and selection is to find someone willing and able to do
a particular job in an effective manner. But it is more than this. Recruitment and
selection is a process that touches people at a time when they are particularly
receptive to the messages about the organisation, the job and the organisation's
expectations of them. These messages shape the way people go about their jobs
if they are recruited. It is important, therefore, for the people who determine
recruitment and selection strategies to think about the atmosphere and nature
of the process and how it might shape the future employee's in-role behaviour.
When the strategy is right, the consequences can be very advantageous for the
organisation, the recruit, the selector and everyone else. When it goes wrong,
the effects can be disastrous for all concerned.
The first story in this section shows a selector realising, and then coming
to terms with, his responsibility. He would be a saviour for some; but how do
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