Analysis of recruitment and selection process of British American Tobacco Bangladesh

Abstract

British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) is one of the major multinational companies in the country and has been operating for over 100 years. It is a renowned leader in Bangladesh cigarette market, with a long established reputation for providing its consumers with consistently high quality brands. Today BATB has over 1,000 personnel and it takes pride in being one of the preferred employers in Bangladesh to work in. Besides another more than 1000 people works directly and further 40,000 works indirectly as farmers, distributors and suppliers. BATB is one of the largest organizations with different functional departments. I worked here as an Intern in the Supply Chain Department. I described all my responsibilities and spend three months in such a way that I not only learn something but also pursue this learning in my life later. Among all the functional departments, Human Resources (HR) department of BATB plays a very vital role in the total organizational functioning of the company. Recruitment and selection forms a core part of the central activities underlying human resource management which BATB handles smartly in a structured way. Recruitment is the process of generating a pool of capable people to apply for employment to an organization. Selection is the process by which managers and others use specific instruments to choose from a pool of applicants a person or persons more likely to succeed in the job(s), given management goals and legal requirements. So, I decided to do the project on “Analysis of Recruitment and Selection Process” and state some recommendations for the improvement of the whole process.