Recruitment and selection

Finding and choosing the right people.

📖 Key ideas

Recruitment attracts candidates; selection chooses the best fit.
A job description lists duties; a job specification lists the skills and qualifications needed.
Sources include job portals, referrals, campus drives, social media and consultancies.
Selection uses screening, tests, interviews and reference or background checks.
Structured interviews with the same questions for all candidates are fairer and more reliable.

💡 Real-life example: Like college admissions: advertising the course brings applications (recruitment), and entrance tests and interviews pick the students (selection).

Job descriptionDuties and responsibilities of a job

Job specificationSkills and qualifications needed

Campus recruitmentHiring directly from colleges

Structured interviewSame planned questions for every candidate