RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION IN THE AVIATION INDUSTRY

  INTRODUCTION TO RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION     In the current competitive market, it’s not only the employees who are finding it difficult to find a job but employers as well are finding it increasingly difficult to find the best and most qualified candidate for the job role (Parvin Eva, 2018) . An effective recruitment and selection method would lead an organization to achieve their goals and with cost effective measures and also ensure that the right number of qualified personnel are chosen (Ofori and Aryeetey, 2011) . Hence organizations should practice proper strategies involved in recruitment and selection and place the right set of employees in key positions to increase organizational growth and sustainability (Parvin Eva, 2018) . RECRUITMENT   Recruitment is the process in which an organization (in most cases the HR department), attracts potential prospects for various job roles within the or...

  SOURCES OF RECRUITMANET AND SELECTION.   When hiring the most suitable candidate for the job the organizations HR department must choose the source of applicants (Harky, 2018) . When it comes to recruitment and selection, there are mainly two sources; Internal and External (M. Shammot, 2014) . Internal recruitment is a process in which the organization advertises the job vacancy for only the existing employees of the organization and the available job roles are filled by them; while external recruitment is the process in which an organization looks for candidates outside of current pool (DeVaro, 2020) . The organization must take into consideration the nature of the vacant job role and also the organization’s Human Resource policies when deciding whether to recruit internally or externally (DeVaro, 2020) . For example, at Sri Lankan Airlines, the company looks into their own pool of candidates when a new managerial job position is vacant whilst Pilots are sourced externa...