International recruitment Recruitment is the process of attracting people to apply for job vacancies. Global recruiting includes not only selecting in-company employees with high quality academic and professional experience but also searching world wide for the best people, whatever their countries of origin.
Recruitment methods 1 . Internal method : The most effective and most common form of expatriate recruitment seem to be internal recruitment, where the international firm identifies the potential expatriate from within their domestic or foreign operations.
Internal recruitment offers advantages to the international firm. selectors have personal knowledge of candidate. Familiar cost effective. Motivational value Better utilization of internal talent
Recruitment methods- Internal Job posting : In this method, the organization publishes job openings on bulletin boards, electronic media and similar outlets. skill inventories Many organizations have developed useful databases and inventories on both local and global level that facilitate an internal search for employees with interest and requisite skills to fill an international assignment.
Internal network referrals : I t means using personal contacts to locate job opportunities. It is a recommendation from a current employee regarding a job applicant who can be a friend or a family member . Transfer and promotion : This is a method of filling vacancies from within through transfers and promotions. A transfer is an internal movement within the same grade, from one job to another.
Promotion , involves movement of employee from a lower level position to a higher level position accompanied by changes in duties , status and value.