Blog 2: Human Resource Recruiting and Staffing

To identify, attract and hire the most qualified people is the goal of the recruitment function (Cascio, 2006). Based on the model of Breaugh and Starke (2000), the objective of recruitment are include cost of filling a job opening, speed of filling a job opening, psychological contract fulfillment, employee satisfaction, retention rates, quality of applicants, quantity of applicants, and diversity of applicants. As we already learn in Human Resource Planning, the popular phrase of recruitment and tougher than ever is the process of having the right people, in the right time and at the right place (Tong and Sivanand, 2005).

            Today’s on global environment which is a very competitive world, all of the organizations are searching and like to have a very efficient and effective way on searching and maintaining their qualified workforce. By using the technology (Internet), it can ensure that the goals to become more productive and cost effective will be achieve. This online application of recruitment will be utilized to the organization that want to obtain information on the applicant to facilitate the process of selection in this compete in global world.

3.1 What is E-recruitment?

E-recruitment is the process of personnel recruitment using an electronic resources in particular is the internet. When officer of human resources want to use e-recruitment system, they must know the important knowledge about it. First is how these systems work, second is how to build it and the last one to guide is how to use the system. On this e-recruitment, there have the big components such as Job Vacancies, Personal Information Candidate, Administration, Job information and the last one is the policies of recruitment. Under the job vacancies is external and internal recruitment and for under the administration are screening, test, interview, assessment and interview result, background and medical report, and also the agreement (offer letter).

Below are the Figure1 that illustrates the function of recruitment and selection:

Figure 1

3.2 Advantages using e-recruitment

            Everything has their implication whether it give the advantages or disadvantages. In this web-based system of the recruitment and staffing, for the employers it can increase the company’s quality by enhancing employee performance through the existing modules like module Employee Self Service (ESS). Where by it provide a flexible and interactive interface between the company and job seekers. Another thing is in position vacancies, which make the organization can disseminate information and articles related to the job vacancies that offered. The profile of job seekers will be put into online system to facilitate the data retrieval in organization and related potential of the job seekers.