Imagine that you work as an HR officer for a company that is unhappy with the effectiveness of its current recruitment and selection practice. You have been asked to write a paper presenting a rationale for the development and subsequent implementation of strategic recruitment and selection.

Before you read on, take five minutes to think through the main arguments that you would use to structure such a paper. Write them down in note form. If you have already read Chapters 1, 2 and 7 you should find these helpful in developing your ideas.

Advance warning!
At the end of this section the following Self-Check and Reflect Question is posed:
What potential features emerge from your reading of the section ‘What is the rationale for strategic recruitment and selection?’ that you would expect to be incorporated into the development of a conceptual framework of strategic recruitment and selection?
You might therefore find it helpful to bear this question in mind as you read and try to identify emergent themes as you go along.