Blog 2: Human Resource Recruiting and Staffing

            For me, this topic was interesting because recruiting and staffing is the early process for an employee must go through to work for the organization. Recruitment is the process of having the right person, at the right time and the right place. There are many ways to recruit the candidates. If the employers want to have the qualified employees, they have to compete with other organizations. This is because other organization also uses the same instrument in order to recruit the employees.

            Nowadays, the World Wide Web is the most famous medium for people to get information from all over the world. That is why the e-recruitment was introduced, so that the process of recruitment would be simplify and won’t take a long time. Examples of e-recruitment are JobStreet.com, LinkedIn, and etc.

            Many companies like to use the e-recruitment application because it can speed up the recruitment cycle and streamline administration. Thus, the companies will have enough time to go through and choose the most capable candidates to work with them. Moreover, this system can reduce the recruitment costs and reach a wide pool of applicants. Reducing the costs but still can get many applicants would give big benefits for the companies since money was always being a barrier for every people. The World Wide Web is operating 24 hours every day, so the access to vacancies was offered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to reach a global audience. Everyone can browse and fill the e-form and send it via the internet.

            Every matters have its own pros and cons. Although e-recruitment have many advantages, still it has the own weaknesses. The response received may overload since everyone in the world have Internet access. The possibility to get the unqualified candidates is high rather than the qualified candidates. When these problems arise, the company need to take time to wade through each application.

Another thing is the technology issues. Nowadays, there still have people that were not confident enough with the security of the online application. They would rather send a resume and who knows that they might be the suitable employee-to-be for the company. Thus, the company may lose the qualified person.

            Information system and technology helped a lot in the recruitment and staffing process. It simplifies the process from the beginning until the end. But, still we need to be careful with the system because it may not benefit us at all. (407 words)

Reference

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Hearst Communications, Inc. (2012). Houston Chronicle | P.O. Box 4260 Houston, Texas. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/disadvantages-online-recruitment-748.html