RECRUITMENT AND STAFFING

Recruitment and staffing is a topic that interesting to discussed, that’s because in the recruitment process there are several technique that can be used to implement in order to make the recruitment process effective. Nowadays, the most popular technique that had been used in the recruitment process is by using the internet. It’s well known as e-recruitment system which is stands for online job application and processing system for employers to advertise their job opening and for candidates to submit their application via the internet.

The goals of the recruitment function are to identify, attract and hire the most qualified people. However, this task has become quite challenge in today’s world because there are growing competition for talent in the labour market. In order to find qualified talent, many companies are increasingly being required to expand their search for applicants beyond local and domestic area. As a result, they have begun using the internet to attracting job applicants.

Using online web based information in recruitment process has several numbers of impacts on the recruitment objectives. It’s include the cost, speed of filling job vacancies, psychological contract fulfilment, satisfaction and retention rates, quality and quantity of applicants and also the diversity of applicants.

In my opinion, there is a good step for each company to implement this system in their organization. From the previous research, it shows that using the online recruitment does reduce the costs. For example, one study shows that organizations saved 95% of recruitment costs when they used online recruitment as opposed to more traditional methods like newspaper. With these different costs, it has prompted many organizations to replace more traditional systems with online recruitment. So it appears that online recruitment can save companies money when compared with traditional methods, but these cost savings are not necessarily apply in all organizations.

Through this system, it also can help to speed up of filling the job vacancy. Research has shown that online recruitment can decrease cycle time and increase the efficiency of the process by allowing the organizations to spend less time gathering and sorting data. The quantity of applicants also include in the impact of using online recruitment. Online recruitment is extremely convenience for applicants and is available to them 24 hours per day. So, it may result in a large number of applicants for every job opening.

In summary, I think e-recruitment and selection system need to be taken into the organization in order to always keep pace with the technology advancement.  

Reference:

1)Michael J. Kavanagh, Mohan Thite, Richard D. Johnson, (2011). Human Resource Information Systems 2nd Edition, Sage Publications, Inc.