In
today’s global environment, most organizations need to become more competitive
in order to ensure the success of their business. To remain competitive in this environment, so
organization need to find more effective and efficient means of recruiting and
maintaining highly qualified employees or workforce. Using of technology like internet becomes the
popular strategy in maintaining and recruiting qualified workforce.
Recruitment
mean the process of identify and attracting qualified employees to apply job in
an organization (Cascio, 2006). However,
this task become more challenging because of the growth of competition for the
talent in the labor market. Organization
need to expand their search to get applicants beyond and domestic borders in
order to find qualified applicants. In
solving this kind of problem, most organization started using Internet in order
to attract the applicants to apply job at their company.
E-recruitment
or online recruitment is the use of technology or the web based tool in helping
the recruitment process. The tools
include a job website such as jobstreet.com and starjob.com or company’s
website and its own intranet. Most
organizations either big or small use internet as their main source to recruit
new employees. They will advertise job
vacancies at their company in a worldwide web or their company’s web to attract
the job seekers to apply for a job at their company. The job seekers will send their resume
through an email. Usually the job
seekers will place their CV’s in the web which can be seen by the employers in
order to recruit new employees based on the requirements needed. There are two kinds of e-recruitment that the
organization can use in attracting applicants which are job portals and also
creating a complete online application section in the company’s own website.
There
are a lot of advantages using this method in recruiting qualified employees. The cost for online recruitment is lower
rather than posting job in the newspaper
as it cost a lot of money. This will
reduce the budget of the company for the recruitment process. It also can save time in getting new
employees as there are a lot of applicants that will apply for the job. So, we just need to choose only based on the
requirement needed. Online recruitment
also provide quality and diversity of applicants in terms of their background
and also their skills. The quality and diversity of the applicants are
determined by the users of online recruitment.
Most applicants who typically use e-recruitment are computer-literate,
well-educated and driven individuals with a high need of achievement (McManus
& Ferguson, 2003).
Reference
Cascio, W.F (2006). managing human
resources : Productivity, quality of work life and profits (7th
ed.). New York: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Johnson, R.D., Kavanagh, M.J. and Thite,
M. (2011) Human Resource Information Systems: Basics, Applications and Future
Directions. SAGE Publications.
McManus, M. A., & Ferguson, M. W.
(2003). Biodata, personality and demographic differences of recruits from three
sources. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 11, 175-183
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