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E-Recruitment
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What Is E-recruitment?E-recruitment is an integration and
utilization of internet technology to improve efficiency and
effectiveness of recruitment process.
E-recruitment is an online recruitment where the recruitment is
done through electronic resources. It utilizes the web based tools,
techniques and technologies.
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BACKGROUND:
E-recruitment originated in the form of independent job sites
called bulletin board systems in the 1980s. The United States
started the global trend of e-recruitment when Taylor launched
Monster.com in 1994 with 20 clients and 200 job openings. Today
more than three-fourth of the Fortune 500 companies use online
recruiting and approximately about 18 million people are posting
their resumes on Internet portals such as Monster.com
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E-recruitment Process:A general E- Recruitment process is as
follows:-
Identify current needs of employment in the organisations.
Posting the advertisement of job vacancy on job board
(Online).Managing the response i.e. Applicant database.
Short-listing of Applicant according to job specification.
Arranging and conducting online interviews (By chatting, video
conferencing etc) Decision making regarding further process.
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Job Advertisement are posted regularly on online communities
like Forums, Blogs, and other websites.
Recruiters are aggressively using social networking sites like.
LinkedIn, Orkut, Facebook, Yahoo-360, Google+ for sourcing
qualified candidates.
Interview process Initial discussion- Telephone/mobile. Final
discussion- Video Conference.
Online Career events, Virtual job fairs have been adopted by
Indian recruiters rapidly.E-RECRUITMENT IN INDIA:
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Advantages of e-recruitment:Time Efficiency: E-Recruitment
System saves lot of time for both employers and job-seekers. It
provides round the clock services.Cost Efficiency: There are no
middle persons involved. The work cannot be hampered.Quality
Efficiency: Filters ineligible and unsuitable candidates.
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ContdGives a 24*7 access to an online collection of resumes.
Online recruitment helps the organizations to weed out the
unqualified candidates in an automated way.
Recruitment websites also provide valuable data and information
regarding the compensation offered by the competitors etc. which
helps the HR managers to take various HR decisions like promotions,
salary trends in industry etc
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screening and checking the skill mapping and authenticity of
million of resumes is a problem and time consuming exercise for
organizations.
There is low internet penetration and no access and lack of
awareness of internet in many locations across India.
Organizations cannot be dependent solely and totally on the
online recruitment methods.
In India, the employers and the employees still prefer a
face-to-face interaction rather than sending e-mails.
Disadvantages of using e-recruitment:
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SOME E-RECRUITMENT PORTALS :
Www.All-biz.ComWww.Naukri.ComWww.Timesjob.ComWww.Careershop.ComWww.Hr.ComWww.Jobweb.ComWww.Monster.ComWww.Recruitersonline.Com
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