Reflection 5 : Web Based Human Resource Planning: Recruitment and Staffing

On this topic will discuss the effects of technology on the recruitment and selection processes in organizations. According Breaugh and Starke (2000), the recruitment objective are include cost of filling a job opening, speed of filling a job opening, psychological contract fulfilment, employee satisfaction, retention rates, quality of applicants, and diversity of applicants. Candidates will fill out all the forms by giving their personal information and employment history as well as what type of employment they are seeking. The company will match them up with any available jobs they have that match the criteria that we are looking for. The staffing is the process of selecting and train individuals for specific job functions and charging them with the associated responsibilities. Another factor that may affect the acceptance and effectiveness of online recruiting is the attributes of the Web site. The best Web site design is user friendly; they can easily navigate and browse through multiple Web pages to find information. Usually, organizations have always used social relationships and networking, including employee referrals, to attract talent. Selection systems are information management system for organizational decision making and administration. Recruitment and Selection system created comprehensive assessments that fit specific job requirements. The customisation for job specification can be quickly and accurately completed by using job analysis toolkit. Each formula provides a systematic assessment and automatically generates online questionnaires that can be directly accessed through company's website. These automated systems also will quickly notifying the applicants of their application status. The main objective recruiting and staffing is to help the human resource management to find the right the people to fill the job vacancies in organization and to decrease employee’s turnover. The advantages of recruiting and staffing, which are reach the large target, reduce cost and time, make selection process easier, get information quickly, streamline the recruitment process, provide useful information, maintain qualified workers, employees forecast, and respond accordingly to the external environment. However, recruiting and staffing have disadvantage which are information overload, limited to user to access, challenges to update information, missing of the information, too computerize, lost of information, time and cost consuming, internet Vulnerability and user lack of computer knowledge.

Of this title, there are three important things I learned, online recruitment can help organizations reduce the costs of recruiting, decrease the cycle time of filling job vacancies and generate large quantities of applicants.

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Resource:

Breaugh, J. A., & Starke, M. (2000). Research on employee recruitment: So many studies, so many remaining questions. Journal of Management, 26, 405-434.