E-RECRUITMENT JUST A CLICK AWAY,G.Nirmala, M.B.A-II Sem

1. What is recruitment?
A. Recruiting is the discovering of potential candidate for the actual or ancipated organizational vacancies or from another prospective it is linking activity bringing together those with jobs to fill and those seeking jobs. It is face to face conversation.

2. What is E-Recruitment?
A. E-Recruitment is nothing but recruiting on the internet. Internet is the way forward for recruiting although still in embryonic stage. Recruiting on the net will undoubtedly grow in acceptance and importance.

Marion Wilson investigates 90% of Europe’s big corporate and virtually all companies have a presence on World Wide Web, the internet is clearly the way forward for recruitment, although it is still very much in the embryonic stages.
Why we need e-recruitment

The following factors determine the need and necessity of e-recruitment.

v Cost-Classified or Expensive
v Minimum Information-Because it is a high cost, the information is provided is minimal and may not appeal to job seekers.
v Search-It is very time consuming to find all relevant available jobs or applicants.
As a result the normal recruitment process is inefficient. So there is a need for
E-recruitment which have a more advantages.

Advantages of E-Recruitment:
1. Lower cost to the organization. Also posting jobs on-line is cheaper than
Advertising in the newspapers.
2. Ability to find the information on a large number of jobs worldwide.
3. Ability to communicate quickly with potential employers.
4. Ability to save on advertisement cost.
5. Ability to find highly skilled employees.
Disadvantages of E-Recruitment:
1. Probably the biggest limitation is a fact that many people do not use the internet. This limitation is even more serious with non technology oriented jobs.
2. Screening and Checking the skill mapping and authenticity of million of resumes is a problem and time consuming exercise for organizations.
3. Security & Privacy may be other limitations.
In India the employers and employees still prefer a face to face interaction rather than sending e-mails.