Week 3 Eoc: Networking and External Sources

In today’s economy external networking can be a good source for recruiting new employees. Some of the booming future workforce can be found in:
Student Organizations. That is when hiring targets are young educated people. With expectation to further grow of the business and bring “new blood” on board with new ideas into the company. Educational background plays important role since this could help produce new managers for the business.
Managing Hospitality Human Resources Robert H.Woods “Some of the techniques managers use to forecast the internal supply of labor for a hospitality operation is to reevaluate the skills of current employees and find out if more training is required.”
External recruiting
-advantages
Give recruiters an opportunity to see how things are on the outside by talking to applicants
-is sometimes cheaper than training
-avoids many political problems associated with internal recruiting
Disadvantages
-morale problems can develop if current employees feel that they have nub opportunity to advance in the company
-Can lower productivity
-Recruits can seems not what they were originally promised