Online Recruitment

Paper Summary:

The paper relates that in today's highly competitive business environment, it is necessary to automate repetitive tasks such recruitment and selection in human resource management. The paper discusses the disadvantages with online recruitment that involve the loss of communication between the candidate and the employer. The paper then deals with the advantages that revolve around the effectiveness of both data collection and retrieval along with a savings of costs. The paper also emphasizes how online recruitment paves the way for HR managers to focus on issues of strategic importance to a greater extent. The paper refers to the Lion Nathan organization's experience that showed how the benefits of online recruitment have far outweighed the costs.

From the Paper:

"One of the most important strategies in this respect is to automate repetitive tasks such recruitment and selection in human resource management. Employees are the most important assets of an organization and therefore it is the top priority for the management to recruit the right people which can be converted into human capital. However the traditional methods of recruitment are time-consuming processes. For this reason the process of recruitment is being automated in most organizations through online computerization."

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