E-RECRUITMENT

In the era of technology, recruiters have also become accustomed to using technology while recruiting. This happens by means of e-recruitment process.

E-recruitment means using information technology (IT) to speed up or enhance parts of the recruitment process. It ranges from the applicant interface for advertising vacancies and making job applications, to the back office processes, which allow a liaison between human resources (HR) and line managers to set up a talent pool or database of potential recruits.
This can produce cashable savings, such as reduced advertising spend or postage costs and non-cashable productivity gains as HR staff. The full benefits of e-recruitment are often realised when it is part of an end-to-end process. Examples of this include allowing line managers to view applications online and seamless transfer of candidate information to employee records. While this may be in part an IT procurement issue, careful measurement of costs and employee time can provide quantifiable efficiency gains. Greater use of e-recruitment can also help combat longer-term recruitment issues through the use of talent pools and better management information about applicants and new hires.

But what’s the advantage for applicant?

Applicants receive a much higher quality of service, ranging from prompt and timely communications through to the ability to select their own interview time through an online interview zone all of which enhances the employer's brand making it easier in the long term to attract staff.

But the e-recruitment is not free from a few shortcomings.
1. Screening and checking the skill mapping and authenticity of millions of resumes is a problem and time consuming exercise for organizations.
2. There is low Internet penetration and no access and lack of awareness of internet in many locations across India. Organizations cannot be dependant solely and totally on the online recruitment methods.
3. In India, the employers and the employees still prefer a face-to-face interaction rather than sending e-mails.

But with the rapid changes one has to be updated. So the e-recruitment is the latest trend in recruitment process and is here to stay.