Aspects Of Recruitment And Selection Of Human Resources In Organisations. The Perspective Of The Employers From Bihor County

The present paper contains, in the first part, theoretical aspects regarding the recruitment and selection of human resources, and in the second part there are emphasized the results of a qualitative research by using the focus group method with persons responsible for the recruitment and selection of human resources, inviting to take part in a discussion the representatives of 10 economic-social units from the county, with which Bihor County Agency of Employment interacts the most frequently. One of the aims was to identify the role given by the employers to the recruitment and selection methods and the characteristics they especially aim to during the selection process. As a research instrument the structured interview was used, with a number of 9 questions, synthesized on the following dimensions: the importance given to the candidate’s performance for selection for the employment in the organisation, the relevance of the candidates’ personality characteristics in the selection process, the opportunity to organize tests/exams for selection, the impact of instruction or previous experience and of the involvement in the volunteering actions in the personnel’s selection, the specialists’ opinion reported to the reputation of the graduated university, as well as of the grades received at school. Thus the majority of the specialists give an important role to the manner in which the candidate presents himself at the interview, they agree with the idea of taking into consideration the personality features of the candidates, but with applicability to the real working conditions. Also they consider that the reputation of the university is not a special problem for them, neither the grades obtained while studying and the exams or knowledge tests are especially used in the cases when jobs need speciality knowledge which is absolutely necessary for the activities. In conclusion, the focus-group participants have proved that the recruitment and selection of work force is one of the essential objectives of the economical-social units, that the selection methods are known and applied according to their specific. Although the results cannot be generalised, we consider that the answers of the employers included in the sample are relevant in order to outline a pertinent perspective on the human resources recruitment and selection modalities at the level of the main employers with which Bihor County Agency of Employment interacts the most frequently.