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Online Recruitment

Human Resources Management

Project Paper: Online Recruitment

Part 1

Submitted by

Sec C
Mithlesh Kumar Ojha
Navneet Singh Arya
Ravish Kumar

Literature Review

Introduction

Although one of the latter steps in the recruitment process, the choice of its recruitment tool remains fundamental for any company. The choice of the recruitment method requires that the organisation goes through an elaborate procedure considering the cost of reaching the target group, the time scales involved, the fit with the organisational culture and the opportunity presented to enhance the organisation’s public relations. One of the newest recruitment tools at the disposal of employers is online recruitment.

Online recruitment is a new tool, at the disposal of the HR departments, which has known a phenomenal success in very short time.

The term online recruiting implies the formal sourcing of job information online. It is also called cyber recruiting or internet recruiting. The first reference to Online Recruiting (OR) was there during the 1980s. Today online recruiting is a huge business throughout the world.

Advantages of online recruiting

The following are the main advantages associated with online recruiting

• Low cost: Publishing vacancies on the website involves no cost at all while the cost of putting advertisement on dedicated recruitment sites depends on the particular site. But compared to the regular channels like newspapers, this method is extremely cheap.
• Shorter recruiting cycle time: It has been found out that this method of recruiting frees around 25 to 30% of the time of the HR from routine tasks to be utilised in more strategic works.
• Reaches a wider range of applicants: this is mostly based on the fact that internet can reach a global audience in contrast to any newspaper advertisement.
• Better quality of response: Applicants who apply through the internet are mostly young, computer literate, educated and...