“How Can Companies in the Oil & Gas Industry in Azerbaijan Improve Their Process of Recruiting and Selecting Their Potential Employees.”

The recruitment and selection process can affect the efficiency and effectiveness of any organisation so it is crucial that the right person is employed for the job. The selection process also involves the image as an employer and its ability to attract quality staff. When an individual is applying for a job, he/she will need to undergo some steps.

As the number of population increased around the world and due to rapid technology development, the global energy requirements and the demand on oil increased year after year. This itself causes a challenge for the oil industry companies, due to the lack of skilled candidates at the time the demand for such professionals and qualified employees is increasing with time, also the lack of suitable replacement for high experienced employees after they retired exaggerate this

Recruitment and selection is the process that organisations use to attract potential employees and then choose the best person for the job.

This report identifies and assess factors that affect an organisations approach to both attracting talent and recruitment and selection. It also identifies and explains benefits of attracting and retaining a diverse workforce, describes methods of recruitment and methods of selection.

“Recruitment is a form of business contest and it is fiercely competitive. Just as corporations strategize to develop, manufacture, and market the best product or service, so they must also vie to identify, attract, and hire the most

Recruitment and selection process held an important role for building a strong sales force performance. This process requires the company to invest through human capital as an important resource. The objective of this process is searching for qualified candidates to fulfil the right positions and hopes that they can make long-run returns for the company. Even though there is no right or wrong way how the company chooses the right candidates for certain positions, every single step in recruiting and selecting candidates should be taken carefully in order to get the right person in the right position.

Recruitment is a process of attracting the widest pool of talents for a vacancy, and there is a variety of ways to recruit new people.

Theories based on recruitment and selection are sometimes viewed in isolation, however it is linked with the development of personnel administration and the practice of personnel management and further connected to human resource management.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of recruitment and selection in strategic management. Byars & Rue (2008) defined recruitment as an activity that seeks and attracts a pool of people from which qualified candidates for job vacancies can be chosen. Byars & Rue (2008) also defined selection as the process of choosing from among available applicants the individuals who are most likely to successfully perform a job. The roles of recruitment and selection in strategic management are varies. Recruitment and selection is an important phase in order to hire the right candidates, to find qualified and skilled workers, to eliminate personnel glitches, to reduce costs of training and development, to recognise the needs of the organization and to manage the candidates.

Hiring of Employees which are not suitable for the Job or less experienced employee as it was expected from the Project Manager or the team.

The recruitment literature according to Breaugh and Starke (JoM, 2000) had been bombarded by criticisms for the lack of substantiated research materials and unanswered questions. The Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology by Guion 1976, devoted one chapter only about recruitment process despite the numerous studies published during 1976. There were questions circulating in the recruitment literature which failed to address the key factors

The project covers introduction of Recruitment and Selection, Purpose and Importance of Recruitment, Sources of Recruitment, Steps in the Recruitment & Selection Process, and Suggestions to make the Recruitment Process more effective. It also includes the challenges faced by HR in recruitment process and the recent trends in recruitment process.

I here by declare that this thesis work entitled ³A study on recruitment and selection

The report “Recruitment and Selection Process of Southeast Bank Limited” was started by us under Rumana Parveen Crouse instructor of “Human Resource Management “(HRM 301). The study has been undertaken as a part of our course requirement. we have to write a formal report on a specific topic and our topic is “Recruitment and Selection Process of Southeast Bank Limited” We think this topic is interesting as we are making comparison between the theoretical recruitment and selection process and the recruitment and selection process of Southeast Bank Limited.

Employees leave the organization in search of greener pastures- some retire some die in saddle. The most important thing is that enterprise grows, diversifies, and takes over other units-all necessitating hiring of new men and women. In fact recruitment functions stop only when the organization ceases to exist. To understand recruitment in simple terms it is understood as process of searching for obtaining applications of job from among from whom the right people can be selected. To define recruitment we can define it formally as it is a process of finding and attracting capable applicants for employment. The process begins when new recruit are sought and ends when their application are submitted. The result is a pool of applicants from which new employees are selected. Theoretically, recruitment process is said to end with receipt of application in practice the activity extends to the screening applicants as to eliminate those who are not qualified for job.