Most organizations
have begun to invest in online recruitments and other modern tools which
facilitate a pool of qualified and skilled employees to the company who would generate
the optimum level of value. Chapman & Godollei (2017) defines E recruitment
as ‘the use of communication technologies such as websites and social media to
find and attract potential job applicants, to keep them interested in the
organization during the selection processes, and to influence their job choice
decisions’.
Source: (Techno
Creats, 2017)
As
described in the above video, E Recruitment and Mobile Recruitment methods are
widely used in the present-day world as they inherit competitive advantages
over the traditional methods and some of which have been listed below.
·
Ability to reach a large number of potential
job seekers at a minimal cost.
·
Recruitment process is real time, thereby
increases efficiency and effectivenes
·
Media content can be substantially richer and the
same enhances the ability to target
the prospects better (Lievens & Chapman, 2019).
·
No geographic barriers and some potential
applicants may get to work abroad
· Job seeker can access the job opportunity on
E-recruitment ‘24 x 7’ (Brahmana and Brahmana, 2013)
Even
though the internet has revolutionized the whole recruitment and selection process, there remain positives as well as negative results for organizations.
·
The flood of unqualified applicants that can
result from online advertising and in absence of a comprehensive screening
method, these applicants may be recruited to the organizations and result in
substantial costs (Lievens & Chapman, 2019).
·
Difficulty in applying the practice for vacancies
in senior positions as the prospect candidate base is lesser.
·
Technology issues that come from standardizing
the application process (Armstrong, 2014)
The
organization in which I am employed is a leading Telecommunication service
provider in the country, uses e-recruitments for the selections &
recruitments in respect of customer care agent vacancies and other non-
managerial staffing needs, considering its cost effectiveness.
References
- Armstrong, M., and Taylor, S., (2014) Armstrong’s handbook of human resource management practice.
- Brahmana, R. and Brahmana, R., (2013). What Factors Drive Job Seekers Attitude in Using E-Recruitment. The South East Asian Journal of Management, 7(2).
- Chapman, D.S., & Godollei, A.F. (2017). E-Recruiting: Using Technology to Attract Job Applicants. In Hertel, G., Stone, D.L., Johnson, R.D. and Passmore, J. (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of the Internet at Work. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 213–256
- Lievens, F., & Chapman, D. (2019). Recruitment and selection (pp 123-150). In A. Wilkinson, T. Bacon, S. Snell, & D. Lepak (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management. Los Angeles: Sage
- Techno Creats, (2017). E-RECRUITMENT. [video] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84KCfGYFc2I> [Accessed 30 May 2020].
Interesting post Jinesh, according to Listwan (2010), online recruitment is considered as one of the fastest growing areas in modern recruitment and it can remove the barriers between potential employees and employers since the recruiting process carried out through internet.
ReplyDeleteThank you Supun. (Henderson and Bowley,2010) state using social media during the recruitment campaign can affect the authenticity of the organization. Further, this source is very useful when reaching the young crowd.
DeleteAgree on your views. With the revolutionary developing internet technologies and human technological skills, usage of social media networks have been broaden with common platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter which led to emergence of e-recruitment where the companies will be able to acquire more competent and potential candidates in the global job market (Kiselicki et al., 2018).
ReplyDeleteThank you Teshan. However, Not only the employer but also employees are benefited with e recruitment system, since the availability of information about jobs are higher. Therefor it allows applicants to find-out better opportunities (Brahmana, 2013).
DeleteAgreed with your views on online recruiting, the rapidly emerging field of E-recruiting provides the opportunity to reach applicants wherever they are through their mobile devices. For instance, a recent survey found that 68% of active job seekers used their mobile phones at least once a week to search for jobs (Glassdoor, 2013).
ReplyDeleteThank you Manuja. The adoption of E-system effectively and its proper implementation are basic requirement of increasing the productivity of organization and performance of employees (You & Ash, 2014).
DeleteAgreed your views and recruitment and selection are critical functions of human resource management for any kind of business organization. These are terms that refer to the process of attracting and choosing candidates for employment. The quality of the human resource the organization has greatly depended on the effectiveness of these two functions(Gamage, 2014).
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