1. RECRUITMENT
TREND IN RETAIL
SECTOR

2. MEANING OF RECRUITMENT
A process of finding and attracting capable
applicants for employment. The process beings
when new recruits are sought and ends when
their applications are submitted. The results is a
pool of applications from which new employees
are selected.
It is the process to discover sources of manpower
to meet the requirement of staffing schedule
and to employ effective measures for attracting
that manpower in adequate numbers to facilitate
effective selection of an efficient working force.

3. PURPOSE OF RECRUITMENT
 Attract and encourage more and more candidates to
apply in the organization.
 Create a talent pool of of candidates to enable the
selection of best candidates for the organization.
 Determine present and future requirements of the
organization in conjunction with its personnel
planning and analysis activities.
 Recruitment is the process which links the employers
with the employees.
 Increase the pool of job candidates at minimum cost.

4. IMPORTANCE OF RECRUITMENT
 help increase the success rate of selection process by
decreasing number of visibly under qualified or
overqualified job applicants.
 help reduce the probability that job applicants once
recruited and selected will leave the organization only
after a short period of time.
 meet the organizations legal and social obligation
regarding the compositions of its workforce.
 increase organizations and individual effectiveness of
various recruiting techniques and source for all types
of job applicants.
 Begin identifying and preparing potential job
applicants who will be appropriate candidates.

5. What is retailing?
Retailing consists of the final activities
and steps needed to place merchandise
made elsewhere in the hands of the
ultimate consumer or to provide
services to the consumer.

6. TEN STEP PROGRAMME FOR
SENSIBLE RECRUITMENT
 Segment the target audience and direct the recruiting
message to that audience.
 Use messages that sell. Analyze what the candidates
want and try and meet those needs.
 Make it easy for candidates to explore the opportunities
being offered to them by facilitating, among other
things, the ease of accessing applications and gathering
information.
 Treat the candidate like a customer, for he is, in
fact, shopping for a job with you.
 Never send a desperate message regardless of the
urgency of the vacancy.

7.  Work with others to achieve your goals.
 Know what your competitors offer and be prepared
to define your unique competence vis-à-vis that of a
competitor.
 Company should never be scared to be imaginative
or creative. Candidates respond quite positively to
unique and appealing messages.
 Don’t try just one source or method. Use a variety
of options to attract the best talent.
 Be persistent and patient while working towards
your goals.

8. EXAMPLE
Wallmart
Reliance fresh.
Vishal megamart
Big bazar.

9. CONCLUSION
India’s one billion populations make the country the
second largest in the world in terms of population
which is the very basis for successful organized
retailing. We should take heart from the fact that
most of the world’s successful retail stories in the
developed as well as in the developing countries have
shaped up in small towns and villages.
Thus it is required for the retailers to go ahead with
the proper recruitment policy for recruiting the
employees for their firms.

10. THANK YOU
FROM:-
GROUP “A”