Abstract
Recruitment is an essential tool to hire candidates. Over the years, the mediums for recruitment have been drastically changed. It principally started with the word of mouth and now is just a click away due to internet and technological advancements. With an increase in use of online platforms, electronic recruitment helps to attract and hire the best candidates to obtain people-based competitive advantage. This study has adopted a quantitative research approach to identify influence of attractiveness, job fit, time, and cost in E-recruitment. Primary data has been collected through questionnaire from a sample of 200 employees of a service sector businesses of Hyderabad Sindh, Pakistan. The findings reveal that large and desirable pool of candidates as well as placing the right candidates to right job has a direct relationship with electronic recruitment. The time and cost of recruitment has inverse relationship with the e-recruitment performed as perceived by employees in the selected service sector organizations of Hyderabad. Based on the findings, the study implies policy makers to apply newly developed concept of e-recruitment for future hiring.
Highlights
Recruitment is a roller coaster, becoming more thrilling with advancement in technology and innovations
The results show for small and medium IT enterprises, HR Managers in Lahore Pakistan focus more on online recruitment to earn a high return on investment in the long run
We used primary data for finding out determinants of e-recruitment in fifteen selected service sector organizations located in Hyderabad
Summary
Recruitment is a roller coaster, becoming more thrilling with advancement in technology and innovations. It started with the word of mouth and now is just a click far away. Recruitment involves practice and activities by companies with the main purpose of identifying and attracting the prospective potential employees. It is a crucial segment of human resource management as it delivers the critical function of drawing human assets in an organization (Baber, 1998). Recruitment is an essential tool to hire candidates in organizations. The mediums for recruitment have been drastically changed over the past years. Newspapers ruled as a recruitment source from 1950’s – 1980’s by sourcing
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