HUMAN RESOURCE RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION APPROACHES IN PUBLIC SECTOR: CASE OF LATVIA

Public sector HR recruitment and selection has its own particular features. There are specific rules and statutes that regulate requirements for public sector organisations' occupations. In the framework of this research, authors pay attention to an important tool of HR recruitment process such as job advertisement. Job advertisement is a tool that needs to be properly developed as it affects HR recruitment and selection process success, employer brand development, and further performance of the organisation. The authors study theoretical aspects of HR recruitment and selection approaches using monographic research method and examine content and structure of public sector job advertisements in Latvia. Based on primary and secondary statistical data analysis the authors revealed several advantages and disadvantages of the public sector organisations' job advertisements. The design, structure and content of some job advertisements are quite weak and unclear. Certain doubts exist whether job advertisement creators understand and plan HR recruitment and selection activities. The authors propose to use Analytic Hierarchy Process to make job advertisement creation rational in order to make HR selection and recruitment process in public sector organisations more effective and efficient.