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ABSTRACT
Recruitment and Selection is a theoretical construct which refers to an organization's hiring processes which
involves recruitment of applicants and selection from viable candidates for jobs within an organization.
Recruitment and Selection aims at providing the required number of skilled employees to the organization to
keep the going concern of the business. Recruitment is the process of finding candidates for the vacant
position and encouraging them to apply for it while on the other hand; Selection is the act of choosing the
best candidate from the pool of applicants and offering them the job.
Recruitment is looking for prospective applicants whose qualifications might be suitable for the job
openings in place, while selection is a process of matching organization's requirements with the skills and
the qualifications of individuals so it is a process of identifying and hiring the best able and capable
applicants that will fill the vacancies in an organization.
The purpose of this research work is to identify, examine and investigate the Impact of Recruitment and
Selection in an organization. In the course of carrying out this research work, questionnaire method of
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Selection process can impact an organization performance. The study focused on when to recruit and select
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Employees of Lawal Aliyu Academy were selected at random and interviewed with self-administrated
questionnaire in order to obtain primary data. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis
methods like Tables and simple percentage method to ascertain Recruitment and Selection impact in an
organization.
Thus, the results obtained indicated that recruitment and selection process has a positive impact in an
organization.
I. INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
An employee is an individual who works in an organization and employing a good employee will definitely
impact positively to the organization. Recruitment and selection is the process of identifying the need for a
job, defining the requirements of the position and the job holder, advertising the position and choosing the
most appropriate person for the job. In addition, the process of Recruitment and Selection in Human
Resource Management (HRM) refers to locating and encouraging the potential applicants so as to pick one
who has relevant qualifications and skills to fit for a job role in the organization. Both these processes
(Recruitment and selection) play a very significant role in finding the Best Fit of Employee for the
organization.
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Concisely, it will be good to note that both activities, (Recruitment and Selection) are integrated to each
other because as soon as recruitment stops, the selection process begins immediately and immensely. Thus,
in order to employ the best suitable candidates and avoid fallacious conclusions, most HR practitioners
employ the use of recruitment and selection process in order to achieve the best optimum result.
According to B. Claydon the recruitment and selection process is focusing on identifying, attracting and
selecting the right person into the right job that will meet the organizational HR requirements.
The researcher would want to point out that an effective recruitment achieves the following:
i. Fulfills the requirements of a job.
ii. Ensures that organizations continue to maintain its commitment to providing equal opportunity to
employees and
iii. Will let you hire the best possible candidates for the organization.
If therefore the goals of an organization in hiring the best candidate will be achieved, it would have to be
attained through the process of Recruitment and Selection.
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vi. An effective Recruitment and Selection process increases employee engagement, sustains job
performance, employee retention and low turnover.
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It will be good to note that the two processes (recruitment and selection) must work in synergy because if
recruitment is the search process, then selection is the process of passing the candidates through a sieve until
the right candidate pops out on the other side.
After a rigorous recruitment and selection process, the business makes its decision of selecting qualified
candidates. Thus, the selection process is complete when a job offer goes out and is accepted by the
candidate.
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Finally, it will be good to note that if the candidate declines the job offer, you will either need to go back to
the other top candidates or restart the recruitment and selection process all over again.
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ii. Good and efficient recruitment and selection process also saves you money because a process that
quickly moves along takes less time and is more efficient; saving you money on the time it takes to
fill a job.
iii. An established recruiting and selection process can help to ensure the hiring process is both fair and
transparent and workers will therefore not face any type of discrimination and will increases their
assurance that their personal information will be kept privately and secretly. These will inevitably
lower the risk of legal actions against the company or organization.
iv. An efficient recruitment and selection process ensures will make you hire the right worker more
often than not: in line with the fourteenth (14) principle of scientific management by Henry Fayol.
v. Save time on training: the right type of hiring and selection process also helps the company save time
on training by hiring the right worker with the right skills and this will make the company not to
waste time on training.
vi. With the right recruitment and selection process the right person, with the right skills, will be ready
to start work by requiring minimal training.
vii. An Effective recruiting and selection processes leads to better company results.
viii. Effective recruitment and selection process improves and increases productivity in a company or
organization.
ix. Good and effective recruitment and selection process increases quality of products and service.
x. Efficient and effective recruitment and selection process directly improves a company or
organization performance when best employees are hired and retained.
xi. Recruitment and selection process increases financial success.
xii. With Recruitment and selection process, company or organization improves when the best people are
identified, hired, trained and retained.
xiii. Recruitment and selection process increase profitability and performance.
xiv. Recruitment and selection process attracts higher quality candidates.
xv. Recruitment and selection process reduces attrition and improve productivity.
xvi. Recruitment and selection process also helps a company or organization retains top talent and
reduces employee turnover.
xvii. Recruitment and selection process also makes employees feel more motivated to work hard and give
in their very best.
xviii. A good and effective recruitment and selection process means more than hiring the right person for
the job because an efficient recruitment process can reduce costs and enhancing a company's
reputation both from a market and candidate perspective by ensuring that the very best talent is
identified, engaged and brought into the business.
However, it will be good to note that recruitment and selection process also has a downside as follows:
i. A recruitment and selection process that hires from within the organization may limit the number of
potential candidates.
ii. Recruitment and selection process is sometimes a very tedious process and could be time consuming.
iii. Using a recruitment and selection agency to recruit can be quite very costly and expensive because
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employer branding strategy.
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In conclusion, there are a number of pros and cons in the recruitment and selection process but the pros
outweigh the cons so it will be ideally good and better to use the recruitment and selection process in
recruiting employees by a company or organization.
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3.6 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
There has always been the need for a fairly accurate data to be collected for any reliable information to be
produced from it. This has prompted the researcher to adopt the best and most appropriate techniques and
method of data collection needed. The researcher employed both primary and secondary sources of data
collection. In the primary sources the researcher used the questionnaire as an instrument for collecting data.
In the secondary sources of data collection the researcher obtained data from text books and previous write-
ups on the study, as well as journals and also on the internet.
Yes 50 100
No - 0
Total 50 100
SOURCE: Questionnaire Administered 2021
The above Table (4.2.1): response from respondent interviewed shows that 100% of the respondent agrees
that Recruitment and selection process has a significant impact on hiring candidates for a job in Lawal Aliyu
Academy Nigeria.
Table 4.2.2: Recruitment and selection process has no significant impact on hiring candidates for a job.
Decision No. of respondents Percentage (%)
Yes 5 10%
No 45 90%
Total 50 100%
SOURCE: Questionnaire Administered 2021
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From the above Table (4.2.2): shows that 45 of them representing 90% agreed that Recruitment and
selection process has a significant impact on hiring candidates for a job, while only 5 of them representing
10% claimed that Recruitment and selection process has no significant impact on hiring candidates for a job.
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range of few respondents (10-30), though there may be a
Substantial increase in the sample size for a pilot study (Malhotra, 2008). The questionnaire was reviewed
by academia in the department and pilot test was later carried out with a group of consisting twenty (15)
staff of the selected branches, of which 5 questionnaires were distributed to each branches. In this research,
Cronbachs alpha (1946) is used to determine the reliability of the scales and results.
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i. In order to achieve organizational success, a company must hire the right employees because with
the right employees fitted in their respective positions, the company will move faster and achieve its
targeted objective goals.
ii. Selecting the right employee helps increase the effectiveness of a business. Therefore, organizations
should always employ correct recruitment and selection processes in order to attract the best
workforce for their organization as this will lead to effective growth and development of the
organization.
All companies and organizations all over the world irrespective of their economic and political policies must
employ recruitment and selection process when employing workers because it will foster the company or
organization growth and development in every aspect. This study also shows that there is a positive impact
on recruitment and selection process in an organization. Companies and organizations should take note of
the various factors of highlighted, with view of using them to achieve higher productivity in an organization.
5.2 RECOMMENDATION
This research is recommended for further study. This is because it deals with human behavior, which is not
static but dynamic and capable of being influenced to change with passage of time.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Sincere thanks are given to the entire management and staff of Lawal Aliyu Academy Nigeria who have
helped the author during the study. My sincere thanks and gratitude also goes to IJIERT Journal for
publishing this research work.
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