recruitment

• Recruitment is :: the process of locating and attracting the right quantity and quality of staff to apply for employment vacancies or anticipated vacancies at the right cost.

Internal or external

• Internal recruitment involves :: filling job vacancies with people within the business
  • Advantages:
    • Motivate staff
    • build commitment
  • Disadvantages:
    • can reinforce negative culture
    • rivalry for positions
• External recruitment involves :: filling job vacancies with people from outside the business.
  • Advantages:
    • wider applicant pool
  • Disadvantages:
    • risk of unknown staff

General or specific skills

general skills include:
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• flexibility and versatility, social confidence, positive attitude, motivation, and the ability to work as a team and/or independently

specific skills are :: highly specialised skills that are required for some jobs within science, technology and engineering sectors

• employee poaching is :: the practice of enticing employees to work for another business.