1. It defines the duties and responsibilities of a particular position. 2. It is a process of convincing or encouraging a prospective applicant to fill in a vacant position. 3. It is the process through which organizations identify and make deci- sions about the applicants/s who will be allowed to join the company. 4. It gives the specifie qualifications required for the position such as type of experience needed for the job, special training, skills and physical de- mands, special abilities, aptitude, age, physical qualifications and other requirement.