External recruitment sources and methods have following advantages:
1. Wider Choice
With the availability of large pool of qualified candidates, the selection process becomes more competitive in choosing the best suited candidate.
2. Qualified Personnel
External sources of recruitment provide a pool of talented candidates for selection purpose. With the large pool of potential candidates, it introduce new blood in the organization.
3. Fresh Talent
External recruitment facilitates the entry of fresh talents in an organization. It encourages the inflow of new ideas, knowledge and skills required to perform the tasks.
4. Competitive Spirit
External recruitment creates an environment for healthy competition in between internal employees and external members, who are supposed to be more trained and efficient.
5. Environmental Adaptation
Since external recruitment encourages the entry of new skills, knowledge and ideas in the organization, it helps in accompanying environmental changes.
6. Fairness
Being an open process, external recruitment provides opportunity to all prospective candidates to apply for the vacant position in the organization. This, in turn, widens its options of selection.
