Online recruitment, also called as E-Recruitment is the process of recruiting potential candidates for required job positions, by using the internet. Currently, many organizations are making use of online recruitment processes to reach out to a number of job hunters and hire skilled candidate for them. This process takes less time than the traditional recruitment process. Online recruitment includes the overall process of finding the potential candidates, evaluating, interviewing and recruiting them according to the job requirements. By using this process, recruitment is done more efficiently and effectively. This paper focusses on the benefits and comforts online recruitment processes.

Introduction

The increasing Internet usage has had a positive impact on the procedures that companies use to hire new employees. Where, traditionally employers had a lesser scope of applicants from which to hire, online recruitment has enlarged the playing field, allowing for a candidate from all over the world to look for opportunities. While this new system of hiring has a number of benefits for employers as well as employees.

Online recruitment involves the use of electronic devices for the hiring process. By using the Internet to connect to prospective candidate across the globe, organizations have been able to decrease the cost and time associated with hiring talent. There is a number of job sites available for job opportunities, which provide companies with a huge range of potential candidate to fill their requirements. Organizations can implement online recruitment in various ways. They can frame their own online recruiting platforms in-house to be managed by HR manager within the organization.

Generally, the job posts are advertised on the websites, where the candidates can attach their resumes or CV, to get acknowledged by the employers or the potential recruiters. The organizations undertake their online recruitment process through their official websites, wherein the entire information related to the corporation or job positions is enclosed. By using this information, the probable candidate can decide whether he is suitable for the post or not. Therefore, the company’s website is considered as an essential part of the online recruitment process.

How the online recruitment process significant for organizations?

Generally, HR managers are busy with managing the number of human resource tasks, and maintaining an environment which helps will motivate workforces to improve their performance in the company. To hire the best suitable candidate, HR department uses the online recruitment process which could help them to fulfill all the requirements of a particular job profile.

Online recruitment process helps to find the best candidate by saving both times as well as cost. Some automated tools are used to make the recruitment process more efficient, and to save time which is required for candidate sourcing, tracking, interviewing, and selecting.

How Online Recruitment Process Works?

• Create a Job Requirement: Firstly, the recruiting manager or the HR manager creates a job requirement to fulfill the vacancy in a team.

• Publish Job Requirement: To get applications from candidates, the recruiting manager publishes the job advertisements.

• Shortlists Candidates: Recruiting manager receives a number of cvs from the online advertisement. Among all the existing applications, HR manager shortlists desired candidates whose capabilities and skills match with the job profile.

• Allocate Tests and Schedule Interviews: To select skilled candidates, it is required to schedule interviews and related tests to check their skills and capabilities. For this process, an automated tool helps in allocating a number of test managers & interviewers to take interview other candidates simultaneously.

• Interviewer Submits Scores and Feedback: If there are multiple candidates who applied for the same profile, it becomes challenging to match their capabilities and skills to hire the fit person. But, with the help of automated tools, interviewers can give feedback or scores directly to the candidates.

• Selection: Once interviewer finished with comparing the results of all applicants, HR manager take the final decision to hire the right candidate.

• Job Offer: Depending on the reference checks, the HR manager sends an offer letter to the selected candidates.

Advantages of Online Recruitment

• Less cost as compared to the traditional hiring process.
• Candidates can be recruited from any region of the world.
• Beneficial for both the job seeker as well as the employer, the organizations can find the potential candidates by their CVs attached to the website, and similarly, the applicants can search the employer through their advertisements posted on the website.
• Takes less time to hire the prospective candidate for the organization.
• The right candidate for the right job can easily get through online recruitment.
• The recruitment process becomes more easy and effective to record details of the candidate.

Online recruitment process encompasses the following platforms:

• Career Websites

Nowadays, many people searching online for multiple jobs increases, organizations are taking benefits of online recruitment software to manage the overall recruitment process and decreasing the recruitment costs.

• Job Boards

Job boards can be useful to source applicants through CV mining or by posting open job posts on the job board. Online recruitment industry comprises job boards such as CareerBuilder, Monster, and others.

• Social Media

Organizations are increasingly using social media platforms to source candidates for vacant positions on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking platforms, as well as to search candidates they are considering recruiting.

• Search Engine

Online recruitment utilizes the SEO (search engine optimization) and online CV search techniques to search databases including online communities, resumes, and social networks.