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 Job seekers. Below given are some sample corporate websites use their
brand to attract job seekers As per Figure 2 Spotify gives
prominence to “join
the band” with bold and large fonts and provides a link for the jobseeker to go
backstage and find more information such as employee diversity and to enjoy
while working, and according to Figure 3 exponea a cloud solution based company
which gives any person who logs in the webpage a clear indication of the number
of available vacancies or opening for hiring, therefore it tempts any person
who logs to its website view job openings.
Figure 4 lifeatdell has posted an add using social media knowing social
media is a global culture which is the specific target audience for that job
opening which highlights on diversification and remote working, when a
jobseeker clicks the image it directs the jobseeker to the corporate
recruitment page.
Figure 2: Spotify
Source: smartrecruiters.com, 2018
Figure 3: EXPONEA
Source: harver.com, 2019
Figure 4: Lifeatdell
Source: harver.com, 2019
Figure 5, apple recruitment video which
explains the Brand image of apple is used to lower the employee, according to
Sullivan, (2002) states that this has been used by advertising companies for
years and employee brand measurements are also developed for this such as awareness:
is the message created reaching the target audience, where your potential job
seeker realizes you exists, second being differentiation: whether the employees
that you want to attract see an encouraging differentiation between your
corporate and others, whereas on this given example apple has managed to
differentiate it the points mentioned as “Apple is all about pushing the envelope
by doing the best thing possible” and also mentions that you are hired because you are top of your field or you have the potential to be on top of your
field and third being is perceived quality and popularity which apple being a
billion-dollar company (Source:
Apple inc Consolidated Statements, 2018) and the popularity can be seen before any apple
product launches the massive queue in front of apple stores, therefore apple uses
all these technics to lower its potential employers to archive its business objectives.
Figure 5: Apple Recruiter Video
Source: Apple Recruitment, 2012
Conclusion
Based on the different methods used by e-recruitment which is aided by the frequent use of the internet and these
methods will be evolving (Lievens, and Harris, 2003). Therefore corporates have made this an opportunity and changed
their approach used for recruitment, as mentioned the figure 1 corporates
websites used for recruitment has increased from 1998 to 2001. According to
figure 2,3 and 4 its mentioned how corporates and put a lot of effort into design framework and content with links on their corporate to lower
potential customers to the organization. The recruitment video explains how
advertising methods such as create awareness, differentiation and perceived
quality and popularity are used taking apple inc as an example, however, all of
these organizations' objective is to recruit the ideal candidate for a vacant
position to drive the business objectives and goals.
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