Rätt person på rätt plats

Title: The perfect candidate – the selection process in a global organization. Authors: Kariin Adolfsson and Simon Leetsaar In today's society, it becomes increasingly current with correct person on correct place in the working life. What requires knowledge about how to recruit in a professional manner and reliable ways. In many bigger organizations, there is today a human resources department that only works with recruitment of new employees. The purpose with our research is to describe personnel selection process in a big swedish organization, how they work throughout the entire process. The study is based on three qualitative interviews and observations of two focus group interviews. The qualitative interviews were held with the personnel manager, deputy personnel manager and the recruiting manager. Moreover, a summary was formulated of the documents that the organization had given us access to. The results from the interviews and observations has then been analyzed compared to theoretical concepts chosen for the study. The analysis of the result shows that the organisation follows a surely prepared procedure in the personnel selection process that reflects the theoretical concepts chosen for the study. Finally, suggestions is presented how the organisation can work furthermore in order to improve their work with recruitment