Q.Explain the importance of recruitment to an organisation.

Recruitment is more than a clerical formality — it directly shapes how good a hire the organisation can eventually make.

Recruitment is important to an organisation for several reasons:

1. Determines present and future manpower requirements — recruitment works from the organisation's own estimate of how many, and what kind of, people it will need, now and in the future.
2. Increases the pool of candidates at minimum cost — a well-run recruitment effort brings in enough qualified applicants for genuine choice, while keeping the cost of attracting them reasonable.
3. Helps increase the success rate of selection — by filtering out clearly unsuitable applicants early, recruitment lets selection focus its effort on a genuinely promising shortlist.
4. Helps increase organisational effectiveness, in both the short and long term, since an organisation that consistently attracts capable people is better placed to meet its objectives.
5. Helps meet legal and social obligations regarding the composition of the workforce, such as reservation requirements, which a deliberate recruitment process is better placed to demonstrate compliance with.

Because selection can never choose a candidate who was never attracted to apply in the first place, the quality of an organisation's final hires is heavily dependent on how well its recruitment effort was carried out.

Treating recruitment as important only for filling vacancies quickly, missing that its deeper importance lies in determining the QUALITY of the eventual hire through the size and suitability of the pool it builds.