Online Recruitment
According to BusineeDictionary.com, “Human Resource Management includes activities such as human resources planning, recruitment, selection, orientation, training, appraisal, motivation and remuneration. It aims at developing people through work.” In human resource management, recruitment is one of the most important processes in an organisation. According to BusinessDictionary.com, “recruitment is a course of action of discovering and employing best eligible applicant, whether external or internal organisation, for a job position in a most suitable and cost effective way.” There are different types of job recruitment, such as online recruitment and advertisement recruitment. In the 21st century, many of the organisations using online recruitment to search the best candidate for company, as the internet have transformed job hunting and recruitment.
There are few types of online recruitment. One of the methods is professional websites. Example of professional website is www.shrm.org, where some candidates who are searching for human resources job go into that site. They have specific professions, skills and not general in nature. The second type is employer website. It can be developed by different employers or can be company own website. One example is www.directemployers.com, which is the first supportive, company owned online recruitment set up by Direct Employers Association. The last type is job board. Job seekers become aware of the vacancies where the recruiters post jobs and search for candidates. Example of job board is www.jobstreet.com. (Gosh, nd) In fact, there are still many other methods of online recruitment.
Online recruitment has advantages and disadvantages in helping organisation for recruitment and selection. It has made more efficient on the employment process for every large and small organisation. For those companies who are still using paper applications have practised to use internet for important sections of the
There are few types of online recruitment. One of the methods is professional websites. Example of professional website is www.shrm.org, where some candidates who are searching for human resources job go into that site. They have specific professions, skills and not general in nature. The second type is employer website. It can be developed by different employers or can be company own website. One example is www.directemployers.com, which is the first supportive, company owned online recruitment set up by Direct Employers Association. The last type is job board. Job seekers become aware of the vacancies where the recruiters post jobs and search for candidates. Example of job board is www.jobstreet.com. (Gosh, nd) In fact, there are still many other methods of online recruitment.
Online recruitment has advantages and disadvantages in helping organisation for recruitment and selection. It has made more efficient on the employment process for every large and small organisation. For those companies who are still using paper applications have practised to use internet for important sections of the
References: • BusinessDictionary.com. (2009) Human Resource Management (HRM). [online] Available at: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/human-resource-management-HRM.html (Accessed: 1 December 2009) • BusinessDictionary.com. (2009) Recruitment [online] Available at: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/recruitment.html (Accessed: 1 December 2009) • Bayt.com. (2009) The Benefits of Online recruitment [online] Available at: http://www.bayt.com/en/career-article-1121/ (Accessed: 2 December 2009) • Ghosh, Arundhati. (nd) E- Recruitment: The Recent Trend of Recruitment Practices [online] Available at: http://www.123oye.com/job-articles/business-corporates/e-recruitment.htm (Accessed: 2 December 2009)