Selecting the Best and Its Effectiveness

Selecting the Best and its Effectiveness  

“If you hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants” (Ogilvy, 2010, p. 6).

Selecting the best possible candidate within the organization or from outside with required skills, qualification, talent and the passion to work will allow the organizations to have the best fit for the position (Surbhi, 2015). There are advantages in recruiting both external and internal candidates. With my experience in an international advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather which they constantly hire industry professional, people with passion and talent. If it is internal candidate, Ogilvy give the first priority depending on the passion and the talent (Cotter, 2018). Then look or he external candidates. If the vacancy is something to compete with the industry such as creative team Ogilvy always go for the industry experts. In searching for the best place to work both external and internal candidates look for the job satisfaction, job security and the personal growth. Ogilvy have created a communication with their own staff experience in sharing their thoughts and experience at Ogilvy where anyone can see what the organization caters. Ogilvy management provide opportunities to internal staff to perform their best and succeed with their carrier progress while obtaining internal promotions. Organization believes in uplifting the internal staff and developing them. With the training exposure which organization enables employees through attending training in other regional county offices add value to the employee knowledge enhancement process and learning and adopting mix if talents in different cultures. The organization gained advantages of building loyal and committed employees through offering attractive facilities and benefits. 

Ogilvy owns a rich culture and exclusive values in the organization which they value their current employees and not forgetting the new employees. The opportunity of being in align with the founder David Ogilvy’s thoughts about the process of hiring employees which is stated as, “If you hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants” the company ensures to hire experts from the industry in order to compete with the industry standards, and it is considered as hiring externally the best fit as mentioned above an advantage to the organization as they believes in hiring external candidates are very significant in the perspective of adding more creativity with new ideas and insights to the business (Cotter, 2018). 

Table 2.0: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Model – Selecting a job 

(Source: Peter & Alex ,2011)

There are several contributing factors in job satisfaction: self-efficacy, work relationships, job security, job performance and pay satisfaction.  Ultimately, all of these factors can be compared with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory.  The tiers of Maslow’s theory are self-actualization, esteem, love/belonging, safety and physiological (Jessica, 2015). Motivated employees work harder, produce higher quality and greater quantities of work, are more likely to engage in organizational citizenship behaviors, and are less likely to leave the organization in search of more fulfilling opportunities. Competition by companies to attract the most talented individuals has given employees the power to demand more than just a reasonable wage or salary, and there is evidence that companies are starting to listen. 

List of References 

Cotter T, (2018), Communicating the recruitment process: dos and don’ts, Available at : https://resources.workable.com/tutorial/communicating-recruitment-process, (Accessed date : 9th October 2018). 

Jessica M., 2015, Job Satisfaction Compared to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Linkedin, 2015. 

Ogilvy & Mather (2010), Annual Report of Global Recruitment, Issue 12, pp. 6.

Surbhi S (2015), Difference between Internal and External Recruitment, Available at :https://keydifferences.com/difference-between-internal-and-external-recruitment.html, (Accessed date : 9h October 2018).