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Employee recruitment can be explained as a process of finding and attracting job candidates that are suitable for the position to be filled. Once a number of candidates are short listed by the end of recruitment, the most suitable candidate(s) will be selected to be hired by the company. Employee recruitment process may comprise the following stages: Stage 1: Recruitment planning Recruitment process starts with recruitment planning with the analysis of the numbers and sufficiency of employees in order to achieve long-terms aims and objectives of the company. Importance of recruitment planning can be explained in a way that failure to deal with it appropriately can compromise long-term growth prospects for the company. Once the recruitment planning has identified the number of positions to be added in the company, job description and person specification for the position needs to be formulated in a clear and unambiguous manner. Stage 2: Identifying recruitment sources Recruitment sources can be divided into two groups: internal and external. To put it simply, internal recruitment involves recruiting candidates within the company, whereas external recruitment is recruitment of candidates not currently employed by the company. External sources of recruitment include educational institutions, data in job centres, job agencies, and even competitors. Internal sources of recruitment, on the other hand, include employee files and databases. Identifying a suitable recruitment source is important because the level of suitability of candidates for the job depends on the type of the recruitment source selected. Stage 3: Generating candidates Once a suitable recruitment source has been identified an adequate pool of candidates need to be generated. Candidates from external recruitment source can be generated through advertisements in the media, campus recruitment or with the assistance of relevant agencies. Generating candidates from internal recruitment source, on the other hand, can be…