Purpose: Research in the field of Recruitment and Selection have become a dynamic study area over the past few decades and is likely to become even more so as the importance of human resource management is rapidly gaining momentum. Therefore understanding the various recruitment methods will be viewed as increasingly important. The global-economy has undergone a drastic change over the last few years. Globalization, privatization, liberalization all contribute to this change. The global-economy has scaled great heights, but in the recent-past recession has been a major road block. There are several consequences to recession, but the major one has been job-cuts. Securing a job today is a challenging and complicated task and to add to the complexity, the recruitment procedure has changed completely over the years. This article aims at examining the effectiveness and efficiency of graduate-recruitment methods in today’s world by using extensive literature review and secondary research.