Hrm 594 Strategic Staffing week 07 (Course Project – Internet staffing methods compared to traditional staffing methods )
Course Project – Internet staffing methods compared to traditional staffing methods
INTRODUCTION
Internet staffing methods compared to traditional staffing methods: time, cost, quality, and retention:
Strategic staffing works as an essential key element to recognize and deal with the concerns related to staffing in various departments of an organization. Staffing is broadly defined as process of attracting selecting and retaining competent individuals to gain organizational goals. Every organization use some form of a staffing procedure and staffing is the primary way an organization influences its diversity and human capital. The nature of work in 21st century presents many challenges to staffing. Companies are having hard time to find competent employees. Some reports indicate that half of employees are passively seeking for another jobs and a sizeable minority is actively seeking new jobs. This is such a problem that many organizations actually face greater recruiting challenge than a selection challenge. Selection will only be effective and financially defensible if a sufficient quantity of employees apply to the organization. Traditional staffing method may cost more money and may prove less effective. The Internet is a medium to facilitate this transaction of buying and selling labor. The appeal of doing business on the Web is obvious. The Internet brings together buyers and sellers of goods and services and by automating transactions, web markets expand the choices available to buyers, give sellers access to new customers and reduces transaction costs for all the players (Kaplan and Sawhney2000).
The methods of traditional staffing were very time consuming. The companies used to publish their job advertisements in newspapers. Candidates from different fields applied and posted their resume to the companies’ HR department without focusing on the specific criteria. As a result, the companies received huge stock of resumes. To separate the relevant
INTRODUCTION
Internet staffing methods compared to traditional staffing methods: time, cost, quality, and retention:
Strategic staffing works as an essential key element to recognize and deal with the concerns related to staffing in various departments of an organization. Staffing is broadly defined as process of attracting selecting and retaining competent individuals to gain organizational goals. Every organization use some form of a staffing procedure and staffing is the primary way an organization influences its diversity and human capital. The nature of work in 21st century presents many challenges to staffing. Companies are having hard time to find competent employees. Some reports indicate that half of employees are passively seeking for another jobs and a sizeable minority is actively seeking new jobs. This is such a problem that many organizations actually face greater recruiting challenge than a selection challenge. Selection will only be effective and financially defensible if a sufficient quantity of employees apply to the organization. Traditional staffing method may cost more money and may prove less effective. The Internet is a medium to facilitate this transaction of buying and selling labor. The appeal of doing business on the Web is obvious. The Internet brings together buyers and sellers of goods and services and by automating transactions, web markets expand the choices available to buyers, give sellers access to new customers and reduces transaction costs for all the players (Kaplan and Sawhney2000).
The methods of traditional staffing were very time consuming. The companies used to publish their job advertisements in newspapers. Candidates from different fields applied and posted their resume to the companies’ HR department without focusing on the specific criteria. As a result, the companies received huge stock of resumes. To separate the relevant