Recruitment is usually confused with selection but it is important to distinguish these two concepts in order to understand the process by which candidates arrive to an organization.

Recruitment is the process by which organizations find new employees to fill their vacancies. It links the organization and the candidate who will in the future become part of the staff. But the purpose of recruitment is not only attracting people to the organization to look for a job, the searching process is focused on finding the right people for the organization, a talent pool of candidates that are suitable to work there. Organizations have different cultures and environmental development. As a consequence, recruitment has to be able to find the right candidates and to attract them to the company.

Once recruitment is developed, there comes the selection process. Selection is the process by which a company detects the most suitable candidate for the vacancy. It consists on different interviews, with diverse levels of the organizational structure. 

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Both recruitment and selection have to be perfectly aligned with the human resources policies, which in addition have to be coherent with the organizational policies. The values have to be respected through all the processes carried out by the company.

Selection involves not only the interviews but also the induction activity, which is the warming up that new employees are exposed to. The objective of induction is basically to give the employee a general idea of the company, informing about values, culture, interests, to understand his/her role in the organization. The responsibility the position has, who the person reports to and who will report to him/her. This way the person’s anxiety is considerably reduced and fidelity is created.