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International Brand Limited

Recruitment & Selection

INTRODUCTION:
"The IBL started its operations a few eras back with the initiation
of a dissemination house. In 1887 it got to be wholesalers for
W.D. and H.O. Wills cigarettes for all the pre-parcel Indian sub
landmass including Burma and Ceylon. As the business advanced
throughout the following couple of decades, the IBL set up
workplaces in a few noteworthy urban communities, including
Karachi and Lahore. At the season of parcel and the making of
Pakistan in 1947, the IBL moved its Head Office to Karachi and
turned into the chief and best-known appropriation house in Pakistan, under the name of UDL
Joined Merchants (Pvt.) Constrained.
For the decades following 1947, many multinational and several large Pakistani companies held
accounts with UDL to service their sales and distribution functions.
In 1991, the proprietors of UDL chose a separation of business thus Worldwide Brands (Pvt.) ltd.
was shaped with a vision to achieve the farthest ranges of Pakistan through an unmatched
distribution channel. The new mission was additionally to expand its business from just sales and
distribution to assembling and showcasing.
In 1993 IBL, purchased the nearby operations of G.D. Searle, an American pharmaceutical
maker and effectively manages that operations to date. Other new organizations were built up to
deal with IBL's organizations as per product lines and industries in a superior and more
organized way, and consequently, IBL turned into the IBL Bunch."1
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Culture:
IBL culture is semi-formal, one does not need to wear three piece suit for every day operations.
Further IBL culture is receptive and employees can present their ideas and put forward the issue
in the company.
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Recruitment:
It is the process of developing a pool of qualified candidates

IBL Clients:

AL STRUCTURE

Sales Business Finance

Business HR business Logistics business
Managers Managers Managers Managers
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IBL keen interest is in promoting the

talent within the organization. It
invest heavily in the tanning of its
newly hired employees and provided
them with different increment plans
and perks to retain the highly talented
employees.
They promote employees within the organization for the upper level hierarchy they merely
invested
In external recruitment when there is not a talent within the organization this gives the
employees a sign of motivation to work whole heartily for the company.
Internal Recruitment:
They promote people internally based on their
evaluation by the immediate boss. Employee gets
promoted based on the numbers assigned to them
during the evaluation process by immediate boss.
They informed to the HR department and then
HR post the vacant position than interested
candidates apply for this vacant position within
the organization. HR filtering the CV and makes a
pool of qualified candidates who meets with the
vacant job requirement .And then give it to the
managers.
TOOLS FOR INTERNAL RECRUITMENT:
The tools which they use for internal recruitment are:

Business letters
Bulletin boards
Memos
Memos are the most widely used tool at IBL.
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External Recruitment:
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IBL also recruit externally they keep on

getting to recruit a best player in the
industry so they keep follow LinkedIn
and go to universities and identify the
best students in their core fields and then
keeping touch with them so when the
position is vacant they acquired them.
IBL also recruit from third party
employment agencies for the direct labor
in specific occasion.

Tools to use for external recruitment:

They published adds in:
Newspaper,
Social media
Employee referrals
Most likely they use employee referrals for external recruitment and gives some incentive to
their employees if they hire candidate from referrals.

Job Analysis:
Job analysis has been done in IBL by
the immediate boss. Immediate boss
who act as a supervisor identifies the
current skills and abilities which serve
as a pre-requisite for fulfilling the
need of the job. Based on the need and
abilities required they prepared they
prepared a draft containing all the
required information and then
published it through different medium.

Evaluation:
IBL evaluated its employees based on the achievement of goals or targets provided to the
employees. In case of business recession when the business is not doing well than the company
understands this situation and rates its employees one grade further so that their evaluation list
will not be spoiled.

Selection:
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The CVS are then filtered ranging from

background checks to educational record
checkup. IBL then further investigated
about the criminal records of employees,
if any family background is an important
factor in this regard as well .it does not
only identify the reference checkups but
will also provide relevant details of ethnic
minorities working in the organization
Moreover there is no quota system in IBL
however referral are most widely
preferred because the current employees
knows the IBL culture and will not refer
anyone who fit in the organization.
However foreigners usually dont work in Pakistan mostly and so IBL has also been
constrained in this regard.

INTERVIEWS:
Interviews in IBL can vary from the panel interviews to the face to face interviews depending on
the nature of the job. Interviews have been taken by the immediate boss of the position for which
the hiring will be in process. Panel interviews are for the senior posts because it requires critical
examination of the candidate before hiring him. Face to face interviews are for the low and
middle level employees that perform routine job. Based on these interviews than employees will
be rated according to their potential and then a final decision will be taken by the interviewer
and the list than be mailed to the regional HR manager
Diversity:
IBL believe is diversity because its a distribution firm and so they need people from different
casts and areas who have the particular knowledge of their caste so that they can communicate
with retailers and wholesalers in different areas of Pakistan. further they have a greater ratio of
men as compared to women in their workforce because distribution network requires more
physical skills than strategic skills they have a workforce of around 2000 employees

Compensation:
There are different perks at different grade levels and the relevant information is as follows
1) Grade level 1-6 includes the salary range of Rs 10,000-12,000 with casuals only and that
to around 25 annually

2) Grade level 7-9 includes the salary range of Rs 15,000-20,000 only 25 casuals are
allowed annually, employees in this grade got 1000 Rs for depreciation and 1,000 Rs for
fuel and vehicle, in total employee receive Rs 2000 per month.
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3) Grade 10-11 include the salary range of Rs 25000-40000.employee in this level gets a
down payment of Rs 125000 for purchasing a car but on the condition that if employees
leave within 2 years then they will have to return the amount provided to him by the
company

4) Grade 12-14 are the initial managers with a salary range of above Rs 40,000 ,the perks
include a more modified and luxuries high powered cars

5) Grade 15-20 are the director and chairman level grades with the salary range of above Rs
80,000 and with more luxurious cars as compared to the previous grades

Conclusion:
IBL success relies on the retention of the best employees they usually preferred internal
recruitment up to director level enabling all post holder to work with more motivation and
dedication while recruiting externally IBL focuses on people that share believe and will help
an organization to continue to grow and delivered excellent customer service as a distribution
firm IBL is very conscious to make an keep their employees happy so they should be loyal to
the organization.