Web Based Human Resource Planning: Recruiting and Staffing

In the era of technology, many people are exposed to the application of internet and technologies. Therefore, there are many organizations that had starting to take employee using of internet instead of traditional way like newspaper, radio, television and other medium. Nowadays, many organizations had used the web based system in order to make ease their work. Same goes to recruiting and staffing process of human resources. The numbers of applicants become huge and there make difficulty for the company to select the competent workers accordingly.

What is E-Recruitment system?

E-Recruitment system is an online job application and processing system for employers to advertise their job opening and for candidates to submit their application through internet. By this system, organization could help their human resource management to choose the right people to fill in the blank position in the organization. Besides, the numbers of turnover in the company also can be decreased because the position had be filling with the right and determined workers.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Economical problems had cause many organization need to reduce the cost and time in term to get a large target in a short time given. So, E-Recruitment had give a big effect on getting a large numbers of qualified applicant towards the position. The organization also can reduce the cost in term of advertising and burden of the HRM loads. By using E-Recruitment, the organization can provide the useful information without worried about the costing of the space needed for the information provided in the advertisement.The important thing is that the process of selection and staffing can be made easier without need a high budget, space, and man power.

Instead of advantages, there are also disadvantages that contribute to failness of web based system. First, the human resources management manpower also will face the difficulty to update the information. We can see that sometimes there is job vacancies advertisement that had been fulfill by candidates but still advertised in the organization web page.