Recruitment and Selection
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Recruitment and Selection
Technological advancement has transformed the business in numerous ways. Companies can advertise and sell their products through online platforms. Business organizations are also able to recruit and employ credible staff through various social media platforms. This paper describes the processes of staff recruitment using online platforms.
Globalization has increased the number of social networking sites (SNS). Numerous business organizations are adopting technological sites to recruit potential employees. Some of the websites used to seek staff include Pininterest, Facebook, MOGUL, Recruiter, and Dice (Zehra 2020). My company takes advantage of the convenience of LinkedIn, Facebook, and Pinterest sites to recruit new staff. The procedures for recruitment are advertising, shortlisting, and conducting interviews and hiring.
Social networking sites provide countless benefits to a potential employee. Online platforms provide diverse employment opportunities for the employee. The availability of many sites increases the opportunity for an employment seeker to find the organization of their choice (Koch, Gerber and De Klerk 2018). Online recruitment is convenient to an employee as it saves on cost and time. On the other hand, online recruiting websites are faced with numerous challenges. Lack of communication is one of the significant setbacks of online recruiters. Technological failures and scam websites pose threats to online recruitment.
The employer using online platforms for employee recruitment faces numerous setbacks. A high volume of unqualified responses, network issues, and less behavioral assessment presents significant challenges to the employer (Fred and Kinange 2018).
In conclusion, technical recruitment provides a sustainable solution to the increasing demands of staff. To reduce the drawbacks of the online recruitment process, the employee needs to be specific while advertising for employment opportunities to avoid bulk responses. The employer should ensure behavioral assessment of applicants to avoid hiring incompetent staff.
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Fred, M. O., & Kinange, U. M. (2018). Effectiveness of e-recruitment in organization development. Management and Economic Journal, 294-301.
Koch, T., Gerber, C., & De Klerk, J. J. (2018). The impact of social media on recruitment: Are you LinkedIn.
Zehra, A. (2020). Impact of Social Media on Recruitment Process.
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As technology continues to advance, organizations are using social media and online platforms to seek and acquire eligible employees. What processes, procedures, and specific websites are currently being used in your organization to seek and acquire potential employees from the online setting? As a potential employee, discuss the benefits and challenges that accompany social media, including LinkedIn, when seeking employment? What are drawbacks that an employer faces when using websites to attract future applicants for positions and how can these drawbacks be reduced?