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Recruitment Practice vs. Theory
Academically, recruitment activity is treated more as experience-based knowledge about practice than as a body of theory.
There is a vacancy; an entirely new job or someone leaves the organisation. We are short of a brain and a pair of hands. It is functionally necessity to fill the post. As to how best to fill the job (decision-making), its demands need to be understood and a skilled, systematic approach is needed for this "personnel" task.
The literature on recruitment tends to give
• more space to selection processes than the wider practices of recruitment (systems & procedures for job definition, advertising, short-listing and overall administration of selection).
• How to do it guidelines (prescriptions) on "best approaches" typically recommend
• common, logical sequences to follow when recruiting
• methods for evaluating job requirements
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