Who has the right to decide on recruitment?

When the employing department is short of people, it will always complain that HR does not recruit them, but the hired employees are recruited, and the employing department is uncomfortable, and it is likely to complain that HR department does not recruit people. This will often lead to the contradiction between the employing department and the HR department, and if this contradiction extends to other work fields, the work of the HR department will become more and more difficult.

The HR department must be the supporting department of the company, that is, in many jobs, it must be a supporting role, including the recruitment department, and it is the protagonist in the recruitment. If the decision-making power of the recruiter is in the HR department, it means that the main role is chaotic.

The role that HR department should play in recruitment is to cooperate with the employing department to recruit the most suitable candidate, not to decide whether the employing department will employ the candidate. Of course, the supporting role does not represent the passive position of HR, on the contrary, HR should strive to achieve the following two points in recruitment:

1. Help interviewers in the employing department to improve their interview skills;

2. Pay attention to the candidate's non-post skill factors (the post skill factors are often judged by the employing department), such as the fit with the company culture. And fully communicate with the employing department to reach a comprehensive understanding of the candidates.

In a word, what HR department needs to do in recruitment is to teach interviewers to use various interview tools and skills, and discuss with the employing department the relevant opinions obtained by HR after using various interview tools and skills, so as to assist and influence the employing department to make a more comprehensive and reasonable judgment on the candidates and finally decide whether to hire them.

If the human resources department still requires the applicant to join the company after fully expressing opinions and suggesting not to hire the candidate, the human resources department should listen to the opinions of the employer. Often, when the employing department encounters the unsatisfactory performance of the candidate at work, it can better cooperate with the HR department in the follow-up work and be more willing to listen to the opinions of the HR department by inspiring the employing department to think of the suggestions given by the HR department at the beginning.

Therefore, the decision-making power of employees is still in the hands of the employing department.