Needless to say, recruitment is a very important function being the first step of hiring effective man-force for the organization.
HR department has revolutionarily evolved in the corporate from last two decades calling for more specialized training into the field. Although there are hundreds of students who pass out with their master’s degree in HR, it is observed that there are very few people who meet the requirements of giant corporate. Also, it came out through many surveys that the ratio of HR to other employees is 1:107. The question arises about this giant difference in spite of bundles of professionals found everywhere.
It would sound very harsh that often student fail to become a true HR professional because their theoretical knowledge is not appropriate enough to the dynamic practical situations of corporate.
Research observations state that people fail in setting an understanding for the very first step that is recruitments. When the base is wrong you cannot expect the building to be strong. It can never be expected for a person to be a successful HR person if he is not successful at recruitments. Honestly I would say that at least recruitments do not require support of professional background because theory cannot teach the specification that the situation would demand. For being a perfect recruiter, factors are many, but requirement is only one – UNDERSTANDING.
There are three factors for which understanding has to be developed on first and foremost basis. First factor is “understanding of the company”. It involves understanding the nature of the company and the need of recruitments there. Second is the “understanding of the person in question” in sense of personal aspirations and judgmements. Third is the understanding of decisions to be taken on which depends career of many people as well as future of the company.
In this whole process, the only requirement is, understanding abilities based upon ones common sense. The professional degree can only affect the time taken to work this upon. But in absence of proper understanding even the professional background would not help at all.
So, from my side, hats off to all those recruiters who have been successfully providing jobs to many deserving people, and that too, without a professional qualification because I know what efforts it takes to do a responsible job like recruitments. Surabhi Kale The Avenue
