Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management. Case # 3

Explain the recruiter's role in the recruitment process, the limits the recruiter faces, and the opportunities available.

Recruiters have a major and very important role in the recruitment process. Recruiters take on the role that can impact most critically on the performance of an organization. Recruitments role can be defined as the set of activities and processes used to legally obtain the correct number of qualified people at the right time and place, to satisfy an organizations duties and goals. In the recruitment process, recruiters have to develop a recruitment policy and retention and the systems that give life to the policy. Also recruiters need assessment to determine the current and future human resources requirements of the organization. Furthermore, the recruiter must identify the potential human resource pool within and outside the organization; they also have to accomplish job evaluations and analysis to identify individual aspects of each job and determine its worth. The recruiter's role continues with an assessment of qualifications to determine employee's abilities and experience. The recruiter must know the organizations ability to pay salaries and benefits. Finally, the recruiter completes the recruitment process with documentation to ensure equity and loyalty to equal opportunity and other laws. Recruiters often certain parameters which impede the recruitment process, limits such as: finding the right candidate within the organization, shortage of perspectives and interests that may reduce flexibility and growth within the organization, promotions from within into managerial positions. Although, recruiters have many opportunities for instance, local university students, online job search engines, newspaper ads, and job conventions.