E-Recruitment: Advantages and Disadvantages
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Over a period, the nature of jobs keeps on changing across the globe, and the need of hiring new employees are on the rise. The recruitment process of new employees should be carried out efficiently and faster as possible. Due to competition arising between the companies to acquire the best candidates; amongst the pool of readily available job seekers in the modern day labor market. The companies need to speed up the whole process of recruitment in order to fend-off competition from other firms. Electronic recruitment (e-recruitment) provides employers with a suitable platform for reaching all types of candidates that suit for a particular job description. E-recruitment is the recruitment process at which the company carries out hiring of new employees and its business via web-based tools, also known as the online recruitment, based on the technology. The purpose of this research paper is to look into the advantages and disadvantages of e-recruitment as viewed by the organizations/companies and the job seekers.

E-Recruitment: Advantages and Disadvantages
Recruitment is the process of identifying suitable potential candidates while generating a pool of qualified personnel to fill-up the anticipated vacancies or actual vacancies within an organization. Since, the nature of jobs is changing, firms are continuously in need of recruiting new employees to fill-up the new positions created by the changes. (Handy (1994), as cited in Sharma, 2010, p. 3). However, over few the years there has been a gradual decline in hiring of new employees; due to the recruitment process being a redundant process with the expected outcomes in some firms.
The emergence of web-based tools form of recruitment have revitalized and revolutionized the whole process of recruitment;