technology IN recruitment

1. Latest Trends in Recruitment
and Selection

2.  E-recruitment
 Social Networking
 Temporary staff
 Recruitment Outsourcing (RPO)
 SA Labour Market
 Risk Management
Trends in recruitment

3. Electronic Recruiting

4. E-recruiting, embracing the term web-
based recruiting, can be described as any
recruiting processes that a business
organization conducts via web-based tools,
such as a firm’s public Internet site or its
corporate intranet. We use the terms online
recruitment, Internet recruitment, and e-
recruitment interchangeably.
Electronic Recruiting

5.  What are the overall trends in e-recruitment use and
practice? Which parts of systems are web-enabled
and what are the related benefits and challenges?
 What is happening in practice? What are the e-
recruitment methods that are being used, and what
are the real experiences from organisations attempting
implementation?
 Does it work? How do organisations evaluate the
success of their e-recruitment initiative?

6. Trends in e-recruitment
Drivers behind the decisions to pursue e-
recruitment were to:
 improve corporate image and profile
 reduce recruitment costs
 reduce administrative burden
 employ better tools for the recruitment team.

7. E - Recruiting Methods
 Leverage Smart Phones
 Blogging on Social Networking Sites
 Job portal
 Company website
 Commercial Job Boards: classified ads in the
newspaper.
 Resume Scanners/text – based resumes
 Sending of SMS
 Video / Visual Networks
 E-Mail
 Employment website

8.  Access to vacancies 24/7
 Reaches a global audience
 Cost effective way to build a talent bank
 Can handle high volumes
 Provide more tailored information to the post and organisation
 Ease of use for candidates
 Applications are instantaneous.
E-recruitment advantages

9.  Limit the applicant audience
 Cause applications overload or inappropriate applications
 Limit the attraction of certain groups
 Can be seen as discriminatory
 Is impersonal
 Can ‘Turn-off’ candidates
 Limited information and not user-friendly
E-recruitment disadvantages

10.  RPO – or Recruitment Process Outsourcing:
 The outsourcing of part, or all of its recruitment
activities to a service provider
Resource process outsourcing

11.  Benefits
 RPO reduces recruitment costs - companies can save on
agency fees, advertising fees, employee referral fees,
travel expenses, etc.
 RPO can help the HR team to focus on their core activities.
 RPO is both time-saving and effective because the full
scope of recruiting tasks is taken care of by an external
dedicated agency
Resource process outsourcing