8. E-Recruitment
Today the world tends
to be a technology-based world and we can realize its presence in each domain
of our lives. The internet world has changed our lifestyle rapidly and it has
also changed the perception of employees towards their work
It allows
organizations to make cost cuttings, update job offers and status at any time, reduce the recruitment cycle period, identify
and select the best knowledge potential out of quite a several applicants, and allows
the organization to improve its corporate image
Figure-08- Traditional Paper-Based Recruitment Process vs. The (new) Recruitment Process With E-Recruitment
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E-recruitment is
understood as the process of recruitment carried out by the use of various
electronic tools
E-recruitment can
thus be felt like an umbrella term covering recruitment and selection
activities executed using different electronic tools and the Internet,
including online recruitment and e-recruitment systems
Figure-09- Fundamentals of
E-Recruitment
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Trends of E-Recruitment
There is raising
evidence that organizations are using modern technology and the World Wide Web
as a milestone for recruiting and selecting candidates
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The E-Recruitment Landscape
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The popular telecommunication organization, where I am attached in, Company uses E-Recruitment method and does not give advertisement in the newspaper because they want to attract those people who are smart enough to use the internet. It just posts advertisements for the vacancies through the company website by posting the position with the job description and the job specification on the job portal and also searching for the suitable applications posted on the site corresponding to the opening in the organization. The organization has ensured that nearly all touchpoints across the entire employee journey were automated and has led to the phasing out of paper consumption for key HR processes, Facilitating the change towards a digital era involves the up-skilling and re-skilling of employees, which in turn allows for optimal resource utilization resulting in a highly-motivated workforce that thrives within the current Industry.
Opportunities and Challenges of E-Recruitment
E-Recruitment has
become an effective way of finding suitable employees of the companies desirous
of filling the empty vacancies in their organizations
Figure-11- Opportunities of E-Recruitment
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Agreed with what you mentioned. Recruitment and selection is very important to an organization since it directly involve with organizational goals. When an organization could be able to recruit highly skilled employees , it will increase productivity, efficiency , quality and lower the production cost and other issues.
ReplyDeleteThank you Roshini, further, there are quit a number of importance of recruitment and selection in an organization’s human resource planning and its competitive strength. Increasing flexibility in the labor market, recruitment is becoming more and more important in every business now a days (Sterwart, 2001). Competent human resources at the right positions in the organization are a vital resource. It can be a core competency for the organization in future. The prime objective of the recruitment and selection process is to obtain the number and quality of employees that can be selected in order to help the organization to achieve its goals and grow in future (Deseller , 2005).
DeleteAdding further in to the valid arguments, organizational websites enable and produce prospective candidates with each job description and alternative data regarding the organization (Braddy, Meade, & Kroustalis, 2006).
ReplyDeleteYes, further, In the context of web based recruitment, organization attributes play an important role in job pursuit and decisions and that more information about job and organization attributes during recruitment is related to attraction. From the organization’s perspective, Web sites provide the opportunity to communicate practically unlimited information about organization and job characteristics, to communicate this information via multiple channels and to communicate this information to a large number of geographically dispersed job seekers at a relatively low cost (Allen, 2007).
DeleteFurther adding, according to (Shahila, Vijayalakshmi, 2013), E-Recruitment is the act of utilizing innovation and specifically Web-based sources for finding, drawing in, surveying, meeting and contracting new staff. E-Recruitment, which can be called the term e-Enrolling, can be depicted as any selecting procedures that a business associates through electronic instruments.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your additional point, and also E-recruitment is a process of recruiting candidates for filling vacant position in the companies through the use of internet. E-recruitment is an integration and use of internet technology to improve competence of recruitment process. Furthermore, better and faster recruiting can constitute a competitive advantage against enterprises from the same market. However, web-based recruitment is now sufficiently widespread to represent a disadvantage for companies that delayed its integration in their own corporate information systems and strategies (Anand & Chitra, 2016).
DeleteI agree with your viewpoints, and the use of e-recruitment strategies has advanced to the point that, in the future, companies will require automated resume screening and searching equipment to remain competitive in their respective industries (Du Plessis & Fredrick, H 2012).
ReplyDeleteYes, further, E-recruitment is a part of electronic Human Resource Management (e-HRM). It is known as one of the most popular e-HRM applications used by organizations. E-recruitment could be defined as the use of the internet to attract potential employees to an organization and hire them. The practice whereby the online technology is used particularly websites as a means of assessing, interviewing, and hiring personnel (Dhamija, 2012).
DeleteIn this fastest growing world online recruitment is modern recruitment process among potential employers and employees(Listwan ,2010).This process is more efficient and effective, as well as cost effective. Online recruitment can reach a larger pool of potential employees and can do the selection process.
ReplyDeleteTrue, as a technological innovation, e-recruitment improves the process of recruiting knowledge via the internet. It also allows organizations save costs, update job offers and status at any point in time, shortens the recruitment cycle time, identifies and selects the best knowledge potentials out of a wider range of candidates while giving the organizations opportunities to improve their profiles and images. There are many benefits that may accrue to an organization that opts to advertise vacancies online. Online recruitment is effective in cutting costs for e-recruitment; it gives access to more people and quick turnaround time among others (Holm, 2012).
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ReplyDeleteAgree and also recruitment and selection not only seek to attract, obtain, and retain the human resources the organization needs to achieve the strategic goals, but may also have significant impact upon the composition of the workforce, the ultimate fit with the organization's needs and culture, and upon long-range employment stability (Benat et al., 2012).
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