London Metropolitan University MBA - Module MN7181 (Assignment 1)

What  is e-Recruitment Today, Technology development is growing rapidly in the field of business. It has led to major change in the organization. Most important world of internet has changed our life enormously and the way of handling and dealing with our work (Bhupendra & Swati, 2015). In the organization the development of human capital and resource management completely depends on the organizational recruitment and it plays a significant role. (Cober, et al., 2004).   Moreover, recruitment has become a major task for hiring the best employee for the organization in the competitive work. The emergence of the internet has improved the traditional method of recruitment with the modern way of e-Recruitment. This technological way of recruitment is rapidly increasing in the business world (Bartram, 2000) Moreover, e-Recruitment has helped to increase the efficiency the traditional application method for all kind of job seekers, as it’s low cost, less time co...

Process of e-Recruitment e-Recruitment is well known for more organized and productive with cost effective and time management (Omolawal, 2015). This method enables for broader search and deeper pool of employees and employers for working smoothly driving the recruitment process. According to Ugo & Ikechukwu (2017), e-Recruitment has automation of the sentiment from start to end as follows. Corporates advertise their vacancies on the web. This can be published this in the corporate or third-party recruitment web sites. Candidates those who are interested to apply for the job can send the applications electronically Technology helps to filter the applications Smart systems match the suitable candidates and provide summarized lists based on recruiter requirements Filtered candidates with the matching profile will be contacted electronically Interviews are conducted using technology where candidate and interviewer can interact from remote locations or candidate...

Challenges in E-Recruitment According to Armstrong (2009), while having many benefits e-Recruitment comes with a number of challenges. In getting broader exposure, employers also may get more unqualified applicants e-recruitment can create immediate stress, but it could end up costing for both organization and candidate. every job seeker is not necessary updated with the computer knowledge. Due to fast and cheapest method huge number of candidates apply for a job (Nasreem, et al., 2016). Due to this reason this will increase in the number of applicants. The surplus of unqualified applicants needs to spend lot of time sorting it. Online source strategies are less personal and lack of face to face communication this can lead to unexpected candidate when approach for personal interview complete waste of time and cost again. the organization have to go through the same process for hunting the candidates. These are some of major tasks for job portals to filter and remove the fa...

Usage of E-Recruitment As I’m working for reputed organization in Sri Lanka, organization required to attract talented and quality employees to achieve the corporate objectives. HRM recruitment process includes sourcing candidates by advertising or other methods, screening potential candidates using tests and interviews, and selecting candidates based on the results of tests or interviews, and on boarding to ensure that the candidates are able to fulfil their new roles effectively. Company uses traditional method of recruitment as well as e-Recruitment.HR circulates emails to internal and external users about new vacancies. These positions will be published in corporate web site for public. Partnered up with third party job sites to advertise the positions. Internally all the new recruitments are traditional and line managers do the request from HR via telephone or mail.HR spends more time to sort all the applications and it’s time consuming effort. Even though they use ...