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Recruitment

Recruitment is a main part of any organization. If an organization cannot hire a competent employee for a specific job then they cannot improve their services. An unskilled or incompetent employee can cause a big loss for the company.



In metro, candidates are recruited from different sources. These are internal as well as external.
Internal sources
• Rehiring
Employees are rehired according to needs of the job. Former employees are rehired for the benefit of the organization, as they know the organization’s culture style ant style, and ways of doing things.
• SUCCESSION PLANNING
Metro company also emphasis on succession planning for high level jobs. They develop the skills of their employees’ for their higher jobs. This recruiting technique is very efficient for executive jobs.


EXTERNAL RESOURCES

Metro company can’t get all the employees they need from their current staff, and sometimes they just don’t want to. So they have to use different external sources for recruitment. Which are





• Via internet

Metro companies recruit the candidates via internet. For this purpose. They have registered their organization on the website; WWW.ROZZEE.COM.PK
They post their job ads on this website and the eligible candidates access them via this website and submit their C.Vs through internet and get the job.

• ADVERTISING

Metro company also recruit the people by advertising their job needs through media. Mostly, they use newspaper for this purpose. They advertise on daily local and national newspapers like JHUNG, JAZBA etc

• EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

Metro company also has an agreement with an employment agency named GREENLAND AGENCY with provides the recruiting services to metro. They recruit and select the employees on behalf of metro. Metro provides their manpower needs to the agency with their required human needs, then the agency select the best suitable employee for metro and gets the commission from metro.





• College recruiting

Metro is also involved in college recruiting. They recruit and select the fresh students from colleges. They hire the technical students. For this purpose, they go to
o SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(GRT)
o FARAN INSTITUTE OF TECHONOLOGY (GRT).

• Employee referrals

Metro company hires their low level workers purely on the basis of the referrals of the employees already working there. Employees are asked to recommend a person for the job opening. As far as working staff concerns the workers in Metro are employed on referral basis. The company basically needs the hard working workers. There is no need of any type of qualification. All they need is commitment of employees for their work. The existing employees used to give references of further employees if company needs. And the references of the workers with good background history and fine output records are given preferences over others

 Considerations:
The quality of employee referrals is usually high. Employees usually only refer people t hat they are confident would be a good match for the position and organization.




People tend to recommend others with similar backgrounds. Therefore it is important to ensure that the practice of employee referrals does not lead to a decrease in diversity within your organization.
People recruited by your staff usually have some understanding of the work of the organization

SELECTION




Selecting the right employee for any organization is very important. It helps organization in meeting its goals and objectives because only a suitable employee will be able to perform his duties efficiently, also a right person selected for the job can take some affective decisions that will help an organization in growing quickly. Human Resource Managers should make sure that they select only that person that has best qualifications, skills and experience available which matches to job specification of a job. If Human Resource Managers select an imperfect employee for the job based on some favoritism or biasness, the org will have to pay the price because that employee will not be able to perform his duties efficiently and also the reputation of the organization will be bad in the minds of public. So it is necessary for a Human resource Manager to hire the best candidate available to them


SELECTION POLICY
• EEO
• main focus is on the qualification, skills, experience
• preference to internal source
• the head of the department who needs the a new employee makes the final decision

EEO
Metro hi tech is a well known organization nationwide does the right thing, they select a person for a job according to law of EEO. They completely follow Equal Employment Opportunity Law. What so ever, they select the person on merit, they don’t discriminate and that shows why Metro name is spoken among some of the country’s best organization of automobile industry.


MAIN FOCUS ON THE QUALIFICATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:
They select the people on their quality, qualification, experience and skills. They select candidates for the jobs in the organization only on external trade and not on the internal trade. Many organizations in the country select people because of they are well groomed or they are good looking, favoritism is practiced in many of organization throughout the world. People are selected because of gender, religion or race preferred by the employer or just because of they are attractive. But that is not the case in Metro, Metro in fact only


select the candidate on the basis of their external trade i.e. education, skills. They think that it does not matter what a person is by birth, the only thing that matters to them is what he has achieved so far in his life and how his education, skills or experience can help their organization.
 
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