E-Recruitment

The internet is a global service that provides 24/7 access to all who access it globally. For employers moving to e-recruitment (CIPD,2005). Corporates have accepted online or e-recruitment with open arms based on the considerable amount of benefits moving in the online recruitment platform. However, it also has its limitations such as when an organization receives a higher number of applications, processing these will be indeed a challenge. Below mentioned are the benefits and challenges faced by corporates related to online recruitment.  Benefits Cost and Time Saving   This will be the most noticeable benefit for e recruitment (Kim & O'Connor, 2009). Compared to the cost of employment agencies, head hunters and other traditional recruitment medium such as Printed media (Malinowski, Keim, & Weitzel, 2005). Due to the by the internet job seekers can send application to employers in seconds and vise versa where the recruiter will be able to communicate wi...

As Lievens and Harris (2003), state that e-recruitment has different methods and these will be evolving regularly, methods will be such as Company website, Job boards, the recruiter searching for online job candidates and relationship recruiting. Cappelli (2001), states that recruitment using the internet has grown rapidly in recent years. Below figure 1 suggests how corporates have evolved, as per below corporates who use website recruiting has increased by 59% in 2001 compared to 1998, and this is continuously increasing. No corporate website for recruitment has reduced to 12% in 2001 from 57% in 1998 this also indicates that corporates are moving towards the e-recruitment process with the advancement of the technology.    Figure 1: Corporate Website trend from 1998 - 2001 Popular Corporate Websites for Online Recruitment As per below samples corporate websites it can be seen how much effort has been put into the layout design and content to attract...

Due to the new advancements in technology it has incurred overwhelming growth in data collection and management systems (Searle, 2006). Organizations have been forced to adapt to change due to the global transformation of big data (Mayer-Schönberger & Cukier, 2013). Russell and Norvig (2016) have stated there are four approaches, as mentioned in table 1 approaches related to thinking are mentioned above and approaches related to behavior are the once mentioned below, the once mentioned on the left of table 1 are the human-centered approach definitions, where success is measured in relation to human performance and the approach on the right side of the table are rational (the ideal human behavior) measured based on a rational approach, where mathematics and engineering drives the rational approach and hypotheses and explanations drives human behavior (Russell & Norvig, 2016) . Figure 1: Definition of AI, Organized into four Categories Source: Artificial intelligen...