Human Resource Recruiting and Staffing

In order to remain as competitive organization in this recent challenging world, the management of the company should find an ideal and efficient way to maximize their competency mode. Planning the recruitment and staffing of new employees into the organization is one of the solution to be one of the competitive organization worldwide.

For this topic, I choose to discuss about the benefits and costs of using Web-based Recruiting and Staffing in organization.

WHAT IS RECRUITING and STAFFING?

Recruiting/recruitment is a process of having the right person, in the right place, at the right time.

Staffing/selecting is a process of selecting the right person to be the employee of the organization.

WEB-BASED RECRUITING AND STAFFING?

The rapid changes in term of technology and system sometimes forces an organization to be always up-to-date with the latest technologies and software. Web-based recruiting and staffing is one of the latest web-based planning system in management. It make the process of recruiting and staffing easier since almost all the process being done online and computerized. Mostly, the company will send the information of job vacancies to the commercial job posting company. From here, the company also included the criteria needed for the job position.

THE BENEFITS..

• It is easy to use. The company just need to send the information of job vacancy, the criteria needed for the job and other details related to the job position.
• Develop short list for interview. This may be seen when the applicants who apply for the job fulfilled the criteria or otherwise. If the applicant lacking from the criteria needed, he/she may be terminated from the applicant’s list.
• Feedback to candidates. It is easy for the company to inform the applicants if they have been accepted for the interview or otherwise.
• Opportunity for in-house employees. They become aware of these opening and may apply for either transfer, promotion or development activities related to their careers
• Help HR success in new system. Thus can be seen when the company want to have continuity planning, talent management and employee development. HR staffs able to assist the company in development and implementation of practices and procedures that maximize the potential and enhance the contributions of a diverse workforce.

THE DISADVANTAGES..

According to Mathis and Jackson (2005), web-based recruiting and staffing also has their disadvantages that come directly from the nature of Internet which is broad exposure. This may lead to piling of work for the HR recruiters since there will be more emails to be read, more resumes to be reviewed from applicants who apply for the job position.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• The company should also install software to help the HR recruiters to extract the applicants resumes and email.
• The company also need to consider that even though we lived in a knowledge economy, as the educators and HR professional, they should be able to a good rapport with people either outside or inside their working area.

REFERENCES

1. Cohen, D. (2001). Web-based recruiting and staffing. In A. Walker & T. Perrin (Eds.), Web-based human resources: The technologies and trends that are transforming HR (pp. 52-64). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
2. Allen, G. D., Mahto, R. V., & Otondo, R. F. (2007). Web-based recruitment: Effects on information, organizational brand, and attitudes toward a Web site on applicant attraction. Journal of Applied Psycholgy, 92, 1696-1708.