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Government jobs are also published in an employment newspaper, which is for job seekers exclusively and provides career opportunities and guidance to students. In these advertisements, an employer gives a brief detail of the organisation; the description of the job, perks offered and desired qualifications and experience of the persons required. In some cases, the recruiter wants to remain unknown, to avoid backdoor manoeuvring by the candidates, and therefore mentions the P.O. box number only. Once advertised, the interested candidates, who match the required profile, prepare and send the resume giving details about their qualifications, experience, specialisation, and desired perks. The personnel department short-lists the candidates who match the requirement. They are then called for interview or screening tests. Finally the most suitable candidate is selected for the job.
These agencies work as a matchmaker between the prospective employer and the employee. Here the employer registers his requirement giving details about the job vacancy, salary being offered and also the desired profile of the candidate. The job seeker also registers himself by submitting his resumes. The consultant, who questions the job seeker about his experience, job aspirations, future plans, and expected perks, conducts a preliminary interview. As these are frequently asked questions, they reduce almost half of the recruiter's task, thereby saving the time and effort of otherwise busy executives. The resumes, which match the required profiles of a particular job, are short-listed and then sent to the firms for final interview or screening. Though there is a huge database of vacancies and resumes available, yet the time taken for filling up a vacancy may be long, due to communication delays. Keeping pace with the changing times, the whole process of recruitment is now possible online, which is faster, quicker and easier. Placing job advertisement, posting of resumes, short-listing of suitable candidates, and the interviews are conducted online through the Internet. This process is reliable, economical, literally paperless, and without any postage delays. A candidate doesn't even have to move from his place to appear for interviews. The energy and the time wasted in searching for the right job or a candidate is minimised as the search engines loaded on a particular site do all this. It is in fact the most methodical and effective tool for recruitment nowadays. Professionals in different trades carry out this Net-based online recruitment and HR consultants cater to the large job market for engineers, MBAiites, IT and software professionals. Several employment agencies, which were till now in the conventional matchmaking business, have opened up their portals to facilitate online recruitment and are doing brisk business. However, the online recruitment not only provides instant data base for the employers to search for a candidate or the job seeker to search for a job, there are many other functions which these sites provide to their clients. They provide online forms, which are to be filled by the employer giving the job description and giving brief information about the organisation. Also, forms are required to be filled in by the aspiring candidates for downloading their resumes and CV. Registration is free of charge in most of the portals. These sites provide newsletters, information about current events, opportunities and vacancies to the registered employees through e- mail and job alerts to the registered users. To the employers, they provide resumes of the candidates from their existing data bank, almost instantly, to match their job profile. Training tapes and videos for preparation of competitive examinations and interviews are available on these sites for the benefit of students and job seekers. The students are provided with online assessment tests or mock examination related to various competitive examinations of engineering, medical, management, for self-assessment. The experts in related fields provide the online tips and guidance for interviews, personality development, and careers. There is a chat forum for discussion on various topics, among candidates, employer and consultants. The online recruitment portals also facilitates interview of the candidates on phone or through the Internet. The information about various colleges, institutions, and the courses offered is available for the benefit of both recruiting organisation and job seekers, thereby helping the companies to search for a suitable candidates for campus recruitment. The search software loaded in these websites instantly searches for the type of job, based on various options of trade, country, and specialisation. Online recruitment sites provide help in the preparation of resumes and even arrange for job fairs or provide online information about the events to their members. Some important foreign sites are monster.com and recruitersonline.com. Recruitersonline network is an association of firms, professionals and consultants and has a database for thousands of firms and vacancies in various trades. They have an arrangement for advertising the vacancies in several other portals like yahoo, headhunter, americanjob bank, and netclassified, besides others. It also provides facility of split in which firm's exchange the resumes of suitable candidates with the other members depending upon the specific requirement, thus saving in cost and efforts. It is a fee-based site that offers trial membership. There is a site of University of Illinois, Chicago, which gives comprehensive career guidance to its students online. This includes interview tips, career opportunities, resumes writing, job search, art of interview and negotiations, and employers' database. Some important Indian sites are careers and business.com, careersindia.com and prizedjobs.com. There is a site called jobsdb.com that has been specifically designed as an online recruitment network for the Asia-Pacific region covering job opportunities in about 8 countries and covering. It provides direct online interaction between the employer and employee. There is a site of Quest International, which is for the recruitment of IT professionals. Several companies have also opened up their websites and advertise jobs on the Net directly. The interested persons may send their resumes directly online to these websites. It has the advantage of saving on time, cost and efforts. Also, the employer clarifies his queries or conducts a short interview with the candidate online through e-mails or chatting. There are certain disadvantages in online recruitment. One is that only those who have the access to the Internet can search or get the jobs and career-related information. This may prevent several talented candidates from getting a better opportunity. Also because there is no direct interaction between the employee and employer, a candidate may not be able to gather complete information about the working atmosphere and about the people in the organisation. But the vast usage and utility overshadows this shortcoming and with the opening up of cyber cafes and facility of the Internet in colleges and universities, online recruitment is possible almost anywhere, anytime and that too within minimum cost, time and efforts. People now have the opportunity to access the latest on career, get interviewed and even selected without moving away from the place, cutting cross all geographical boundaries. Online recruitment is an effective and speedy tool and shall account for sizable employment and career opportunities in the near future. |
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The second method of
recruitment is through local employment exchange in districts or
universities, where students enrol themselves on the basis of their
qualifications, and are called for interview whenever a vacancy arises.
Though it is cost- free, yet is a time consuming way of recruitment and
may take months to receive just an interview call. Another method, which
is not very reliable, is sending the resumes directly to the firms. This
gets into the data bank, and whenever a vacancy is created, a candidate
can be called for an interview. The next most common and important
method of recruitment is through employment consultants or agencies.