The Role of Agencies in the Recruitment Process.
According to the CIPD report Resourcing and Talent Planning (2015) the recruitment outlook is positive in terms of increasing resourcing budgets and a growing demand for labour. Despite this there remain a number of difficulties faced by firms in recruiting the right staff with the right skills.
“UK employers are now operating in the most buoyant employment market experienced for some time” which is adding to the challenges they face in the labour market (2015:7). The same report goes on to state that many organisations are turning to external agencies to assist, particularly for attracting top talent.
Scenario: You have been newly appointed to a HR Adviser role in a large private company. The company is finding it difficult to recruit staff and your manager wants you to explore the option of using a recruitment agency to help improve the quantity and quality of the applicants that apply for positions.
Task: The HR manager is keen to explore the options available and wants you to provide a proposal that presents an evaluation of the use of recruitment agencies so that she is able to make the decision whether to use these or not in improving the recruitment process.
Format: A management report that discusses the findings from your investigation on the advantages and disadvantages of the use of agencies. Based on these findings, you need to consider whether to use an agency but you should also provide recommendations on how the company could manage the relationship with the agency effectively for a successful result (if the decision was made by management to go ahead with the proposal).
Suggested structure:
Aim: to investigate the use of recruitment agencies
Scope: investigate range of literature (both academic and practitioner) to explore the use of agencies and evaluate their advantages and disadvantages – you must be careful to assess the quality of the evidence that you are using to make judgements.
Findings
Conclusions / recommendations
Reference List.
This coursework assesses student’s fulfilment of the following module learning objectives:
• To demonstrate ability to research a topic or problem, observe, describe and record information.
• To demonstrate intellectual ability to think critically, analyse problems, understand, and apply concepts, synthesise different types of information, evaluate and make rationally argued judgements.
• To structure and present written work to meet specified criteria.
Reading from recommended text (Taylor, 2008): Chapter 10: Alternative Recruitment Methods, as a starting point.
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