Direct Hiring

Direct Hiring

Direct recruitment eliminates any middlemen within the method of sourcing new talent for an organization , the paradigm case being on-campus recruitment by an employer's in-house recruiters. Other formats include direct-contact job fairs, other institutional visits and even shopping malls (in the case of military recruitment).

Its advantages include clear transmission of the employer message, visible in-house endorsement of the organization by its members serving as recruiters, simplified logistics for potential candidates and potentially reduced recruitment costs (e.g., no commissions). Potential drawbacks include a scarcity of expert HR expertise (when other staff are assigned the recruiting task) and thus the risks inherent in handling a less-motivated talent pool in virtue of the minimal effort required on the a part of the target population to capture the eye of the employer.