Recruiters will have a mental picture of the kind of person they are looking for. We can model the good candidate by drawing up a personnel specification to share with others.
Recruitment becomes a hit and miss affair.
A personnel specification must be realistic. Simply do not make an appointment. Wait and recruit again. For and against a personnel specification the prescription is well known and recommended to managers and trainee personnel officers by the HRM literature yet there is scant of widespread use by recruiters in practice. It can be useful in terms of monitoring issues such as the potential for discrimination in recruitment.