Advantages Of Conveying A Realistic Recruitment Message

Recruitment is procedure for finding a suitable person for a given job, usually done by recruiters. It is also done by an agency, or a staff member looking for the right recruits. As a part of the recruitment process, several possible ways are done to advertise a given job position.

These advertisements can be of several ways. Through the internet, newspapers (some newspapers, like JobFinder are specifically published to help unemployed people to find a job), a job center, person to person recruitment and job fairs done on specific target places like universities, government facilities, etc.

Recruitment messages, often included in these advertisements, are sometimes realistic and sometimes it is misleading. It is better to recruit employees by setting out realistic recruitment messages, because it has many advantages.

This can become a guideline when the person applying for a job is employed. Their expectations can be met, and they will be in their job longer, compared to people recruited out of unrealistic messages, like a promise of high pay and benefits, yet undone by the company.

The employee is likely to leave a job if their guidelines and expectation are not met. Realistic messages in recruitment also help in developing trust between the employer and the person applying to be an employee. Trust between the company and is a good asset a company must be able to generate, because the employees, honesty is based on trust.

This honesty can build and develop a company or it can destroy it. Another advantage of a realistic message conveying in recruitment is, it also enables recruitment of another person, possibly close and related to the employee that gains benefits from the company.

If an employee is satisfied to his/her benefit in a company, he/she will be able to tell this to other people. Others may as well have the desire and opportunity to apply in this company because of the benefits given to its employees.

It is a bad practice for a company to say to a recruit the things he/she only wants to hear.  It does not only minimizes trust between the company and employees, it may lead to downfall and decline of an organization or company if the expected things an employer said was not met or done.

References:

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation. (2007). Jobseekers. Retrieved September 2007, from The Recruitment & Employment Confederation Web site: http://www.rec.uk.com/jobseeker.