The importance and the value of e-recruitment in human resources management and an application

Invention and widespread utilization of internet and also developments in information technologies are caused certain changes in Human Resources Management applications. Due to this modification, recruitment process applications that are widely utilized in electronic form, turns into e-recruitment applications. This study investigates the effects of technology usage in Human Resources Management and e-recruitment process which is increasingly used in recent years. Hence, the general Human Resources Management functions are explained and changing over electronic applications in all human resources processes are mentioned in first chapter. The second chapter studies the e-recruitment and election process. The advantages of e- recruitment due to present day applications and its added value in terms of Human Resources Management is analyzed with a survey, applied to Human Resources employees, in application section. Human resources employees who are applying e-recruitment process, from 36 companies are attended this study. It is applied the survey method to employees and evaluated obtained statistical results.The theoretical explanations and also the survey results reveal that e-recruitment is taken up seriously by human resources employees and used as an indispensable tool for recruitment process. The survey results for e-recruitment usage of human resources employees are not indifferent according to demographic features. Hence, it indicates that all participants have the same point of view notwithstanding age, gender, proficiency levels and enterprise levels. Electronic applications provide several benefits such as time, cost and easement of access to qualified applicant, in recruitment and election process which is the most critical process for Human Resources Management. Therefore the study comes to the conclusion that it is unavoidable for competitive companies to benefit the technological developments in selecting and hiring process.Key Words: Human Resources Management, Internet, Electronic Selecting and Hiring (E-Recruitment).