Sources of recruitment
| Source | Benefits | Challenges |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising | Wide audience | Not cost-efficient |
| Direct mail | Selective and personalised | Time-consuming and opening of mails may be frustrating |
| Firm-sponsored social event | Cost-efficient | Possibility of ‘sales pitch’ resent by attendees |
| Electronic recruitment | Cost-efficient and paperwork reduction | Possibility of having a large number of unskilled applicants |
| Employment agencies | Large pool of applicants | Not cost-efficient and unqualified applicants |
| Professional association | Cost-efficient and personal referrals | Possibility of having rejected applicants by someone else |
| Newspaper inserts | Easily removed | Can be easily overlooked and lost |
| Campus recruiting | Possibility of selecting best and top students | Not cost-efficient |
| Government agencies | Cost-efficient and large pool of applicants | Possibility of unqualified applicants |
| Job posting | Time and cost-efficient, revealing hidden skills and creation of openings at lower level | Lack of control by managers, and bitterness of an employee who posts for job levels |
| Notes: Fundamentals of human resources management | ||
| Source | Benefits | Challenges |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising | Wide audience | Not cost-efficient |
| Direct mail | Selective and personalised | Time-consuming and opening of mails may be frustrating |
| Firm-sponsored social event | Cost-efficient | Possibility of ‘sales pitch’ resent by attendees |
| Electronic recruitment | Cost-efficient and paperwork reduction | Possibility of having a large number of unskilled applicants |
| Employment agencies | Large pool of applicants | Not cost-efficient and unqualified applicants |
| Professional association | Cost-efficient and personal referrals | Possibility of having rejected applicants by someone else |
| Newspaper inserts | Easily removed | Can be easily overlooked and lost |
| Campus recruiting | Possibility of selecting best and top students | Not cost-efficient |
| Government agencies | Cost-efficient and large pool of applicants | Possibility of unqualified applicants |
| Job posting | Time and cost-efficient, revealing hidden skills and creation of openings at lower level | Lack of control by managers, and bitterness of an employee who posts for job levels |