4). A Comparison Between the Process of Traditional Recruitment and E-Recruitment

    The recruitment process can vary in complexity and degree of difficulty depending on the recruitment objectives and the recruitment sources chosen (Breaugh& Starke, 2000)

    The most common used sources for external recruitment are newspaper ads, private and public employment agencies, Internet job boards, corporate websites, employee referrals, colleges and universities, search firms, job fairs, etc. (Ployhart, Schneider, & Schmitt, 2006)

Traditional Recruitment

    In traditional recruitment, the candidates search is generally conducted internally by the Human Resources department. It can include methods such as internal promotion, the use of existing networks within the company, and advertising through traditional methods.

    Furthermore, traditional methods refer to print advertising, a vacancy being put on company’s website or in the local employment office.

    The paper-based recruitment is a one of a traditional recruitment process and following figure1 will be summarized the recruitment process using job advertising.

Figure 1: Traditional paper-based recruitment process using job advertising

Source: Anna B. Holm (2012)

    With respect to the ideas of Anna B. Holm (2012), recruitment of external candidates from job advertising usually starts with the identification of required applicants, their location and placement in the labour market, and proceeds with activities designed to attract and persuade qualified applicants to apply. Job applications are then received, screened, and sorted, leading to the drawing up of a shortlist. The process ends with communicating the pre-screening results to applicants.

 E-recruitment

    Modern Recruitment harnesses the power of technology to track down potential candidates. This typically includes online job boards and Social Media sites, usually LinkedIn, but other Social Media channels can be used if it is deemed appropriate for the company and the role requirements.

 The steps of E- Recruitment process will be described by following video 1.

     Source: dgtalworld (2014)

According to dgtalworld (2014), following are the steps of e-recruitment,

• Job Announcement
• Select position and apply
• Collect CVs
• Filter – shortlist – select
• Schedule interviews
• Select right candidate 

Figure 2: The design and sequence of tasks in traditional paper-based recruitment versus e-recruitment

Source: Celina, Maja (2018)

    According to Celina Sołek-Borowska, Maja Wilczewska the main changes in the recruitment process design using e-recruitment versus traditional paper-based recruitment process were in the sequence of the process tasks. Unlike in the traditional recruitment process, the task of communicating with applicants and processing incoming applications was performed simultaneously with the task of attracting applicants suggesting a major change in the traditional recruitment. The process that demanded a lot of work was the one concerned with communicating with applicants and became a focal task.

Conclusion:

        While traditional methodologies have worked well for a long time, a new era of technology is being hustled. Traditional methodologies for recruitment are being pushed out for being too expensive and too time-consuming for the modern workplace setting. They are also an ineffective way of searching for truly rare-finds within industries and modern e-recruitment styles save the company’s Human Resources department a lot of time in comparison over traditional methods.

References:

• Anna B. Holm (2012), E-recruitment: Towards an Ubiquitous Recruitment Process and Candidate Relationship Management, Article in Zeitschrift für Personalforschung August 2012, 241-256

• Breaugh, J. A., & Starke, M. (2000). Research on employee recruitment: so many studies, so many remaining questions. Journal of Management, 26(3), 405-434.

• Celina Sołek-Borowska, Maja Wilczewska (2018), Research on New technologies in the recruitment process, Economics and Culture 15(2), 25-32.

• dgtalworld (2014). Dgtal E-Recruitment Process. [video]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnUlNYGCVZE&feature=emb_rel_end> [Accessed 15 August. 2019].

• Ployhart, R. E., Schneider, B., & Schmitt, N. (2006). Staffing organizations: Contemporary practice and theory (3rd ed.). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

• Talent Acquisition and Modern Recruitment Techniques, October 19, 2021, Business Site. <https://talent2win.com/talent-acquisition-recruitment-methods/>