When a company is considering to allocate resources on which department, it usually depends on the future profits that the department can earn and also how it impact the company’s future path. Most, if not all, marketing or product design department usually is allocated more resources rather than in the human resources department for employee recruitment and selection. I think the mainly reasons of this action should be the costs, future profits and short term effectiveness. When a company is deciding their year plan, it often comes up with launching and deciding a new product to catch the market trend and retain supporters by suiting their taste and attract new customers to switch to our brand by the new product. As putting resources on marketing and designing teams can directly reflect on the sales, so company usually tends to invest more on these departments in order to increase the sales and profits in a short term and long term way and the costs it invest is big but worth. However, company sometimes forget who think of those ideas of designing and marketing. If there are no talented and productive employees hired by the human resources team then there will not have those awesome ideas to laugh a new product. Therefore, the company always neglect the main recruitment part is because it cannot give a direct profit to a company. Moreover, the cost of hiring a talented employee is high as the company needs to provide a well-rounded package and a high salary to attract brilliant employee.
The weakness of not prioritizing employee recruitment and selection is the loss of competitive advantage compares to competitors. If the company does not want to use an attractive salary package then it is hard to lure an awesome employee. The strength of not prioritizing employee recruitment and selection is the short term effectiveness from other departments as it cannot generate direct income to the company but marketing can do this.
3 replies on “The Case for Recruitment & Selection”
Hello Shuk,
You made a great point in that many companies focus on the short term outcomes, in that they look at current sales to determine success. Many companies forget the high costs that are incurred by not allocating resources to other areas like human resources. I also liked how you mentioned that hiring a great employee and retaining them can be very expensive. I think companies need to compare the costs of hiring average employees at a lower rate, but having less returns, and hiring great employees at a higher cost, but having higher returns.
I agree that companies that focus on sales and profits are less likely to put effort and energy into staffing and recruitment. I agree that it results in a less effective workforce that can’t support good products in the long run. You give a really good explanation of the thought process of these companies. Great post!
I liked how you demonstrated the thought process of why companies might invest more into their marketing and products than their employees. When you talked about how it reflects in their sales I thought you made a really good point. Companies often do think about short term profitability rather than long term. It is easier to think short term, but although long term planning is challenging it does help encourage long term success. I also agree with you that it is natural to want to focus on the more visible parts of the company which is why these areas likely get more attention.