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Influence of Technology in Recruiting and Hiring

Abstract:

We will discuss the influence of technology in the recruiting and hiring process more from a practical side

Outline:

It's a 2 pages paper about technology based recruitment with 3 works cited.

There is a new trend developing in the recruiting employees through technologies. Because of the competitive type of the business, organizations are in search of new ways to recruit employees that not only have the business and technical information necessary to carry out a specific job, but they are also in search of candidates that fit perfectly into the corporate culture of the organization.3

Traditionally, the central focus of recruitment technology is on professional-level staff recruitment and experienced people. However during last few years, a lot of organizations have started focusing on new innovative ways to enhance the recruiting process through utilizing enology. 1

In previous years numerous new discoveries have been made in the field of recruitment technology, new tools have been discovered new tools cater to some of these particular requirements, mainly paying attention on the retail sector. Though, it is becoming obvious that huge companies are looking for a single solution to address every way of recruiting, either it is professional, profile-based, hourly, or college. Online application forms distributed through low-cost kiosks, basic and simplified assessment tools, collecting applicant data offline and synchronizing, and the ability to manage applicants by job category rather than by requisition are all features we expect to be developed further to address this growing need.

Formerly, lower technological expectations and a firmly established hierarchy allowed general managers to delegate narrowly defined personnel responsibilities to those functioning as specialists. Today however, such practices would be inefficient to the point of being considered static, and must be replaced. To fail to do so would be to ignore and fail to address the many unprecedented pressures that demand a comprehensive and more strategic view in relation to the organizations' human resources.

There are numerous ways, employers recruit applicants. Here we are discussing some of the important ways:

Ð'* The first ways is through Advertising Employers may advertise in print media, local community pamphlets, trade prints, advertising agencies, radio or television, on the Internet or on telephone job hotlines etc.

Ð'* Next way is Internal Posting through which people hire through posting there vacancies to attract the applicants.

Ð'* Third ways is through Referral-- in this process the friends or coworkers are the source in general. Many employers actively solicit these referrals as part of their recruitment efforts.

Ð'* Employers also use the private and public