Formal recruiting

Equal opportunity demands equal access. This can only be achieved through public and open recruitment.The likelihood of attracting 'suitable' applicants depends on the detail and specificity of the recruitment advertisement or literature. Key factors such as salary, job title, career and travel opportunities obviously influence response rates. But remember that employers do not want to be swamped with large numbers of applications from unsuitable people. This section of Human Resource Management in a Business Context goes into further detail such as: quality of agency recruiters, comparison of different media channels, cultural variation in recruitment practice.