Social Media Recruitment and Selection: Influences and Biases

SOCIAL MEDIA
RECRUITMENT
AND SELECTION
INFLUENCES AND BIASES

INTRODUCTION
 The wicked problem of labor crisis is
adversely affecting the business or the
organizational prospects of the different
firms.
 Derous, Pepermans and Ryan (2017)
have noted that the traditional
approaches to recruitment and selection
had failed to meet the increasing labor
demands of the business firms.
 The HRs and firms are turning towards
the methods of e-recruitment and social
media recruitment to hire new
employees

MALDIVES: AN OVERVIEW
 Maldives, an Asian island nation, is located
to the south of the nation of India in the
Indian Ocean (Maldivesinfo.gov.mv, 2019).
 Maldives has a land area of only 286 sq.
km
 Maldives is known for its picturesque
beauty which is one of the major reasons
for the large number of Asian and
international tourists that the nation gets
(Maldivesinfo.gov.mv, 2019).
 Ladkin and Buhalis (2016) have stated that
despite the geographical and political
challenges that the nation faces, it had been
able to make a significant advancements in
terms of trade and commerce.

BUSINESS WORLD OF
MALDIVES
 Tourism and hospitality industry forms
the backbone of the national economy of
the concerned nation.
 Maldives is home to some of the most
reputed business firms of the world like
“Allied Insurance Company”, “Maldives
Gas Pvt. Ltd”, “Fuel Supplies Maldives
Pvt. Ltd”, “Lafarge Maldives Cement Pvt.
Ltd”, “STO Hotels and Resorts Pvt. Ltd”
and others (Maldivesinfo.gov.mv, 2019).
 One of the major problems that these
firms and their HRs face is their inability
to hire the right number of kind of
employees.