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What is Hiring Halt

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Navigating the New Normal of Business With Enhanced Human Resource Management Strategies
A hiring halt occurs when an employer temporarily stops non-essential employee hiring to minimize costs, usually when the company is facing financial crisis.
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COVID-19: Impact on Recruitment Processes
Shoeb Ahmad (College of Business and Management, Fahad Bin Sultan University, Saudi Arabia)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8451-4.ch009
Abstract
The COVID pandemic has a major impact on the business world and workplaces. The effect is visible across all the industries, businesses, and job positions. Bringing about drastic changes in our means of communication, the way we work, transportation, and other daily activities, COVID-19 has generated changes in the basic values and practices of recruitment of the personnel. It has placed us in the position of adapting and compromising with the situation in all aspects. Whatever the situation, the world and its business have to keep running. Today companies are busy finding ingenious ways of recruitment, keeping the social distancing rules in mind, to meet the recruitment goals of their organizations and run business as usual. In this chapter, the author is going to discuss the steps taken by organizations to continue their recruitment process across the pandemic and how they are different from recruitment in normal days.
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