From my understanding, recruitment
and staffing is one of process to find out and match the suitable worker with
the right position in an organization needs. Recruitment is a process of
attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a position in an
organization, while staffing that process of selecting and train individuals
for specific job functions and charging them with the associated
responsibilities.
Today,
the Internet has a presence in every segment of our society, and job searching
and recruiting is an increasing activity on the Web, as consequence of a crisis
in our economy, and to the accessibility to computers. Based on Cohen
(2001), “As recently as 1997 only about 11% of US employers were using the Web
for outside recruiting, a figure that has reached 80% today and is expected to
approach 100 percent in the next few years”. Nowadays, e-Recruitment
system has provided to online job application and processing system for
employers to advertise their job opening and for candidates to submit their
application via the internet. I myself also have ever experienced
this phenomenon where I did apply for a job through the online method.
From
the lectures, I think that it would be much easier for the employer to manage
their human resource to find the right people to fill the job vacancies in
organization in the same time to decrease employee’s turnover occur. In
addition, this system is suitable to workforce analysis and planning, sourcing
and attraction, assessment an attraction, hiring, deployment, and retention.
This is because employers will more easy to conduct this process, get
information quickly, and able respond accordingly to the external environment.
Well,
yes, E-recruitment is a time-cost effective method of finding qualified
candidates to fill up the job opening. Online recruitment can facilitate
organization eliminates costly and time consuming manual data entry,
researching resumes and job posting. There are more diverse applicants with
qualifications attracted and it generates applicants’ responses immediately and
can easily screening the unqualified applicants. Besides, the system also
enable links to other job search sites, automatically tracking applicants and
evaluate them. The information gathered and provided have to be secure for the
applicants to lead psychological contract fulfilment which directs affects
employee satisfaction, expectation and retention rates.
However,
I can see there still have some disadvantages of e-recruitment such as
information overload when excessive number of unqualified applicants apply
which consume time and cost to screen out. It also may cause discrimination
which exclude older and certain minorities’ applicants who lack of computer
knowledge to access and lack of personal interaction. Therefore, it is
important of human resource administration on the effectiveness of the system
which compatibility and validity.
As
a conclusion, the staffing process is crucial because have to lay out the route to
ensure right people in the right place at the right time. The recruiting and staffing process can be
streamline by using E-recruiting Applications Tracking System featured with the
tools that integrate and
administer talent recruiting, screening, selecting internal and external
applicants.
References:
3. Dessler G. (2011).
Human Resource Management. 12th ed. Edinburgh Gate: Pearson
Education Limited.
4. Dileep Kumar M. and
Srota Pandya (2012). Leveraging Technology towards HR Excellence. Information
Management and Business Review. 4(4): 205-216.
