Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to examine the recruitment and selection practices in
the modern era of business. The senior human resource officers, who directly report
the human resource manager, are the respondents of the research who provide detail
information about the organization’s recruitment policies. The organization which is
selected for the research is Pakistan Petroleum Limited. Exploratory research is used
as it helps to find out the problems in the recruitment process of organization and the
research tools are interview and questionnaire. Secondary data like different books,
newspaper, official website of organization and other websites, articles and qualitative
techniques are used in this research for better result. Information is taken from a small
sample through the interviews and questionnaire. After collecting all the information
data is presented graphically and interpretations supports the graphs. The graphical
representation and interpretation of the gathered information reveals that the
organization has medium attrition rate, it does not take feedback from candidates,
time consuming recruitment process, lack of recruitment software which provide
candidates information about their application status, no flexibility in probation period
etc. so they have to adapt the new scientific methods of recruitment and selection by
adapting new recruitment software, quarter or semiannual review of policies ,
probation period for trainees should be elastic to retain their interest and control the
attrition rate by taking exit interviews and miscellaneous surveys.
