Recruitment and Selection Process: A Study on Caritas Bangladesh

Abstract

From past decade the business organizations are more concentrating on the human capital because they are the most valued and most treasured assets. While recruiting the candidates the organizations has to map carefully the available human resources because they create the competitive advantage for the organizations. The aim of this report was to focus on the recruitment and selection process of Caritas Bangladesh and it also focused on identifying the problems relating to the recruitment and selection process used by the organization. The finding of this report was purely based on the opinions and results from the human resources of Caritas Bangladesh. A design of questionnaire was produced and was given to different employee in the field to provide us with the results based on the questions. Nowadays, most large organizations have a Human Resource Department (HRD). This department has a lot of contribution to achieve the organizational objective. The responsibilities of HRD are recruitment, selection, training and development, performance management, payroll and employee satisfaction. In Caritas Bangladesh’s all appointments are made through advertisement in the regular published newspapers both in English and Bangla. Quality evaluation part shows that recruitment and selection process which followed by Caritas Bangladesh is well organized. Most of the respondents believed that this process is enough to hire qualified employee by this recruitment and selection process. Caritas Bangladesh recruits many employees in every year. Caritas Bangladesh uses both internal & external sources of recruitment. It is duty for the HRD of Caritas Bangladesh to choose the right people at right time for right position. After completing the recruitment part, Caritas Bangladesh selects candidates by following a proper selection process such as sort out CVs, Written test & viva, job offer, medical test, background investigations and permanent job offer. After appointing the new employees, Caritas Bangladesh arranges brief orientation program.