Organizations may allocate their financial resources towards marketing over effective employee recruitment and selection practices because they find that in order to attract employees, they have to make a name for themselves and their company through marketing. Spending the time to market a company and their products as a whole, allows their brand to grow, people to recognize them, and as a result increase the number of high-level professionals who want to compete for their open positions. Dependent on the company as well, they may also have a competitive advantage in their marketing techniques or product design and have found that allocating their available resources to those practices over recruitment and selection is better for the overall company.
Some of the strengths of choosing to not prioritize recruitment and selection are that companies may have positions that do not need specific needs that recruitment departments need to focus on. If a company is well known and has basic entry level positions, the need to allocate resources to recruitment and selection techniques might be smaller than their need to market their brand or continue developing their products. It is important to understand where their time and resources can be best spent.
Some of the weaknesses to not prioritizing recruitment and selection are that companies could hire the wrong people, onboard and train them, and then realize that they may not be the right fight. Hiring the wrong people and spending time and money to get them adjusted with the company just to have them quit or fire them, sets a company back financially and doesn’t allow them to use their time as effectively. Another weakness to not prioritizing recruitment and selection methods are that companies could unintentionally fall into discriminatory hiring practices which could lead to huge financial problems for the company as a whole.
Overall, regardless of the company, allocating time and resources to effective employee recruitment and selection practices can benefit a business no matter what stage they are in.
Hi Makenzie!
I really liked that you noted that company’s may focus on other aspects besides employee recruitment and selection because they think they need to make a name for themselves. I didn’t even think of this when crafting my blog post. I think this is a great point, because if the company is new and doesn’t have many clients, they may not have the financial resources to put towards employee selection and recruitment and they may need to focus on increasing their market share before they can focus on employee recruitment. Overall, great post! I learned a lot more about the topic from reading this!