| Issues and Challenges in Recruitment and Selection of Employees | |

Contents Introduction 2 Recruitment 3 Recruitment & Selection Process 4 Importance of Managing the Recruitment and Selection Process 7 Issues in Recruitment & Selection 9 Challenges in Recruiting and Selection 11 Discussion and recommendations 14 Conclusion 20 References 21

Introduction
Organisations today are increasingly transforming from regional company to a Multi-National Company. However; the effects of such operations do not end up with international markets and consumer products. In fact, Managers today are faced with several breath taking challenges of leading a true global workforce.
As we can remember the good old days when we can find staff by advertising in the local newspaper, and graduates and apprentices were plentiful and grateful for a job. Due to the scaled- back university courses/intakes and apprenticeship schemes, the aging population and the resources have left Australia desperately short of qualified people, and thus, now HR managers are often required to think globally to fill out positions.
Recruiting efficient staff in an international context is the process of identifying and attracting potential candidates outside the country and initiate the process of evaluating them for future employment. Once candidates are identified, organisations can begin their selection process. This process includes: collecting, measuring, evaluating information about candidates' qualifications for specified position etc.
Recruiting overseas staff is a very important decision for a company's development since overseas staff are required to perform jobs requiring specialist skills (for example, technical or language skills) that are not available Australia; they can also fill vacancies for which there are not enough AU applicants; on secondment or