Unfortunately, strategic human resource management could also involve downsizing, which means the human resource manager will have to effectively communicate the process with the employees involved. Once downsizing has occurred, the restructuring process will involve retraining and repositioning of certain jobs.

One interesting paradox in the recruitment process is the dichotomy between hiring someone with existing qualifications to do a job well and training personnel to do the job well. When an employee is hired, one might assume that he or she may not have the specific skills...

Hence, employees who are hired often need to be trained. This begs the question whether qualifications at all dictate the ability of an employee to do the work any better than another, less qualified employee.
One way to address this is to consider specifically the requirements of the work to be done. Employees must be hired based upon certain assumptions. One should, for example, not hire an employee to work in a laboratory if there is no evidence of scientific qualifications. The more specific elements of the job can then be trained.