E-recruitment perceptions: Importance,processes and requirements

Nowadays, the old-style methodology of recruitment has been transformed with the concept of on-line recruitment, or what we can abbreviate to e-recruitment. Because of the increasing number of end users of the Internet globally, e-recruitment has developed rapidly in recent years. E-recruitment has opened the way for new concepts in employment with easy to access to information, easy management and savings in time for both workers and employers. The main objective of this research is to demonstrate the importance of e-recruitment to any enterprise and to discuss the impact of using the medium of the Internet as a channel for the recruitment process. In addition, this study endeavors to show how we can decrease the overall cost of the recruitment process, and how to provide a more integrated functionality to the recruitment process in addition to identifying the benefits of e-recruitment for both employers and applicants. Moreover, this study suggests e-recruitment for the University of Kirkuk as a case study. An e-recruitment system implementation at the University of Kirkuk is also discussed in addition to identifying the benefits of using an e-recruitment system to jobseekers and stating the impact of e-recruitment in improving the human resources management mechanism. Finally, a number of recommendations by the researcher are presented regarding financial and administrative issues