Comparison of multi-criteria decision aiding methods in the problem of employee recruitment

One of the most important categories of decisions made in the company are decisions regarding human resource management, in particular decisions related to the proper selection of personnel and recruitment. Wrong recruitment decisions can directly and indirectly lead to financial losses, while the right personnel selection decisions reduce job turnover, increase morale and eliminate the cost of subsequent recruitment process. The decision-making methods used in the literature in the recruitment of employees are mostly complicated, which may make their results unreliable for the management. Therefore, the article addresses the problem of verifying the applicability of relatively easy-to-use decision support methods, which were AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluations). Although in the considered problem of staff selection, the same candidate for employment was indicated as the best one, the conducted research allowed to conclude that these methods may lead to slightly different recommendations. Therefore, it is worth using both methods to confirm the results and obtain a more complete picture of possible decisions.