Understanding Recruitment vs. Staffing: Can You Explain the Key Differences?

sangeetha Madaka
Hi,

This is Sangeetha. I would like to know the difference between recruitment and staffing.
raajz_johnny
Dear Sangeetha,

Greetings!

Staffing involves finding people who may be hired or already working for the company (organization) or may be working for competing companies. Recruitment refers to the process of finding possible candidates for a job or function. Nowadays, these activities are being undertaken by staffing agencies because it is very difficult for HR managers to find the right kind of people at the right point of time. Therefore, they give some money to these staffing agencies to carry out the recruiting work on behalf of their client or the organization.

Regards,
John N
askforsatya
Dear Sanjeetha,

What Is Recruitment?

Recruitment is a constant, year-round process of keeping your organization's name in front of people. Before looking at some basic steps of the recruitment process, let's define what we mean by recruitment. For many people, the distinction between public relations, marketing, and recruitment is unclear.

Public Relations is the art of helping the public to understand what your organization does and encouraging the public to regard your efforts positively. It is designed to influence as large a segment of the public as possible at any one time with the message you have selected to share.

Marketing involves determining the needs of select or target audiences and then designing goods, services, and opportunities that respond to those needs. It relies heavily on designing the organization's offering in terms of the target markets' needs and desires, and on using effective pricing, communication, and distribution to inform, motivate, and service the markets.

Recruitment is the act of identifying groups and individuals for service and then actually asking them to volunteer.

While public relations, marketing, and recruitment are not synonymous; they do support each other and benefit the overall mission of your organization. When the public knows the name and service provided by your organization, people are more likely to remember your organization when they think about serving. When employed properly, marketing strategies can help target your recruitment campaign to the people who are most likely to say, "Yes!"

Steps in Recruitment

Finding volunteers to meet your agency or organization needs requires careful thinking and planning before an appeal is made. Prior to actually going out and asking people to help, you must:

- Clearly identify volunteer needs and position descriptions
- Know what you have to offer - the "costs" and benefits of volunteering
- Plan a recruitment approach based on volunteer needs and position descriptions
- Implement your plan

Once groundwork has been laid, you are ready to implement your plan and make the appeal.

What is staffing?

Staffing is from employee joining to the exit process. For staffing full information, I will let you know.

Warm Regards,

Satya
askforsatya@yahoo.com
Hyderabad
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Definition:

Determining what type of people should be hired; recruiting prospective employees; selecting employees; setting performance standards; compensating employees; evaluating performance; counseling employees; training and developing employees.

Source: Human Resource Management Book By Gary Dessler
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