Personnel Procurement: Objectives and Methods

It is considered one of the core tasks of every HR department: personnel procurement.

With the help of personnel procurement, a company ensures that employees with the necessary qualifications and competencies are available in sufficient numbers.

So how exactly does personnel procurement work?

At the beginning of the process is the identification of staffing needs. Personnel planning must determine: what personnel is needed to achieve the company’s goals – both immediately and in the future – in terms of quantity and quality? There are several methods of personnel procurement, which are generally divided into two types: internal and external. Internal personnel procurement fills a position with existing employees – possibly including further qualification measures as part of personnel development. External personnel procurement, on the other hand, aims to attract new employees from outside the company – often through active sourcing, for example via traditional job advertisements, using a talent pool, through career fairs, etc. A well-thought-out and coherent employer branding also plays a key role here.

Successful Recruitment: A Challenge for Every Company

How exactly does personnel procurement work? Recruiting employees always consists of several steps:

• Requirements analysis: what qualifications are needed?
• Addressing potential candidates: for example, through job advertisements 
• Selection of candidates
• Onboarding: integrating the new employees into the company

This list already shows: recruiting is not only potentially lengthy but also a complex process. Especially external personnel procurement is time-consuming, and in times of skills shortages and the so-called war for talents, it is a real challenge for HR departments and the entire company – organisationally, in terms of time, and financially. On top of that, the modern applicant market is becoming increasingly complex. Digital recruiting channels offer many opportunities, but are also more complex to manage than the traditional job advertisement.

E-Recruiting: A Modern Solution for Modern Applicant Management

To make the entire process as smart and successful as possible, modern personnel procurement can benefit from so-called e-recruiting as an alternative to analogue methods. Our user-friendly E-Recruiting Software supports you in implementing digital processes.

One major advantage: applicant management can be made much simpler and more efficient thanks to the software – you can save up to 70 percent of the workload. Other advantages include transparency, so that all parties involved can always maintain an overview, the automation of certain processes, individual configuration options and flexible, easily adaptable solutions at any time.

As you can see: it's no surprise that more and more HR departments and companies are relying on e-recruiting for their personnel procurement.