Claim: Recruitment and selection is a company’s most important function.
Counterpoint: The most important function of a company is to create more values.
Many organizations are more willing to allocate more resources for marketing or product design rather than recruitment and selection because companies pay more attention to direct interests and have an unclear understanding of the importance of recruitment and employees. First of all, companies are more focused on product development is to improve the company’s core strength. Only with high-quality and innovative products can companies gain an advantage in the market and enable consumers to generate consuming needs. Secondly, the purpose of marketing is also to sell products to more consumers and expand market share. Both of these can directly increase the profits of the enterprise and lay the foundation for expanding the production scale, which is also a prerequisite for recruiting more employees.
Many companies decide not to prioritize recruitment and selection in favor of other aspects of the business in order to focus resources more on key business and market development, thus they can obtain benefits within the shortest time. The recruitment of talents cannot quickly show results and direct benefits, so it is not conducive to cost savings for enterprises. However, ignoring recruitment and selection also has great disadvantages. Hiring a bad employee can lead to huge losses. For example, an enterprise may lose a certain business or even receive a lawsuit, resulting in damage to its image. Inside the enterprise, there might be contagious dissatisfaction and disengagement. Therefore, organizations should pay more attention to recruitment and selection for long-term development.
