HRM Report: External Labour Recruitment and Internet's Impact

This report provides a comprehensive overview of human resource management (HRM), focusing on the crucial process of recruitment. It explores both internal and external recruitment strategies, emphasizing the advantages of sourcing candidates from the external labor market. The report highlights the impact of the internet on recruitment, discussing the use of online platforms like LinkedIn, job portals, and social media for finding suitable candidates. It details the benefits of online recruitment, such as cost-effectiveness, speed, and access to a wider pool of applicants. Furthermore, the report examines the specific ways businesses can leverage the internet, including company websites and social media, to attract and select qualified individuals. The study concludes by analyzing the overall impact of the internet on the efficiency and effectiveness of external recruitment processes, underscoring its role in modern HRM practices.

Managing human resources

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Impact of internet on recruitment of external labour.......................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to the process of recruiting employees, provide them
training, providing compensation or incentives, creating policies for them evaluation of
individual performance and resolving conflicts or issues and communicate them at every
employees(Batterham, 2014.). HRM plays a very crucial role in managing employees and the
working culture of the organisation. It helps in resolving conflicts, improving the individual
performance, employee turnover ,controlling budget. present study is based on company that
recruits various suitable and qualified candidates from various external sources like online
platform. study will explain the internal and external sources of recruitment. Furthermore, it will
describe benefit of recruiting candidate from external labour market and various online platform
to find right candidate for right job and at the right time(Brewster and Hegewisch,
2017).Assignment will also explain the concept of human resource management. In addition,
report will explain the effectiveness of using social media platform in order to find skilled and
qualified candidate for fulling the various vacant job position in the business.
MAIN BODY
Recruitment is a process of recruiting most suitable and qualified candidate from the
internal and external business environment. It involves attracting, short-listing , selecting and
appointing right candidate for the right job at the right time with in the organization. it helps in
identifying and hiring new and fresh talent from outside in order to bringing new and innovating
ideas for achieving the over all objectives and goals of the organisation(Brewster and
Hegewisch,2017).
Types of recruitment
Internal recruitment: it involves recruiting new candidate from with in the organisation .
in this process the candidates are readily available to an entity. It can be done in three ways
transfer, promotion, re-employment of existing employees. through internal recruitment business
can increase the productivity of its existing employees and can also enhance their motivation
level that lead to increase in over all employee performance.
External recruitment: in this process entity recruit people from the external labour
market. such as- Advertisements, educational institutes, college campus, existing employee
references, through various recruitment consultancies. External recruitment takes a lot of time in
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recruiting new candidates. But it provides an opportunity to get new ideas that can helping the
developing various operational function of the company(Collings., Wood and Szamosi, 2018).It
enables company in getting new and fresh talent that can contribute in achieving the success and
growth for the company.
Benefit of recruiting new employees from external labour market
Recruiting new employees from the external environment instead of hiring or promoting
existing employees within the organisation. Provide various growth opportunity for the success
of concern. New employees will bring new innovative ideas with them that can help organisation
in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of its various operational functions. that also
increase the competitive advantage of the company.
The business have an opportunity to get large number of applicants from the external
sources and they can select the best and skilled candidate who is fulling all the requirement given
in the job description. Sourcing new candidate from the external environment also motivates the
existing employees to increase their level of performance and boost them to produce or achieve
more for getting an opportunity of promotions and transfer.
Company can finds most qualified applicants and can also develop its various team of
employees. Recruiting new skilled and talented applicants from the external sources can reduce
the training cost of company. And also increase its competitive advantage(Heilman, Manzi and
Braun, 2015). External sources of recruitment assist in getting large number qualified candidate
that bring new and innovative ideas with them that ultimately helps management in making
various strategies , taking best decision and creating long term for plans for the business. That
will increase the productivity and growth of the company.
It enables business to face better competition. because they will get talent and skilled
candidate that have an ability to handle skilled jobs , ability to risks. the business is able to
identify the skilled applicants through conducting interview rounds. External recruitment provide
a pool of potential applicants that have a potential to face various difficult situations and ideas in
order to find possible solutions for dealing with the risky situation. that will also minimize the
chances risks and contingencies in the company(Batterham, 2014.). External recruitment
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provides new fresh qualified candidates that also assist in adopting the new changes in the
environment. External sources of recruitment provides an opportunity to all prospective
applicants to apply for the vacant job position in the company. So that they can apply for the job
position according to interest and on the other hand company will also able to get potential
candidate for its vacant jobs.
Ways to find candidate through internet
The business can find number of suitable candidate through internet. like various job
portals LinkedIn , indeed, naukri.com and various other job providing apps. Online recruitment
is a method that involves sourcing applicants on internet. it helps in finding the right people in a
very less time. It helps enterprises in defining the talented and skilled candidate that they are
looking for by using various modern searching filters and spotlights(Collings , Wood and
Szamosi, 2018.).it provides smart suggestions that assst in creating strong search by
recommending various , locations , titles and job roles.
Firm can prioritize those applicants that are ready for job change or ready to move.
Company can recruit various effective candidate through websites .they can provide all the
information relating to performing various job rolls such as required qualification , skills,
abilities and potentials. Facebook is also a great source of recruiting number of skilled and
suitable applicants(Heilman., Manzi and Braun, 2015). By posting various job post and
requirements company can pool a large number of suitable candidate that is fulfilling all the
requirements given in the job description of the company. business spend money in giving
advertisement in new paper for the vacant post then also it will have to pay money for the same.
But online or internet recruitment process is cost effective method because entity needs not to
pay any kind of cost for getting suitable candidates.
Recruiter can find the best talent by using Instagram. that is an image based app for
mobiles. that helps business in attracting various job seekers and active applicants to apply for
available vacancy(Advantages & Disadvantages of Online Recruitment,2011). organisation can
post the images of their job description that bring clarity among the job seekers relating to the
available job position. Through online platform entity can reach out to the candidate by sending
them personal messages , e-mail. It also enables firm to share its scheduler and calender
availability for conducting the interview process effectively. It saves a lot of quality time for
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company. they can use saved searches and providing job alert to the candidates who are open for
new opportunities rather than re-creating searches for every job roles. it assist company in
tracking people that are suitable for performing the various job roles. the organisation come to
know whenever any applicant update their indeed profile or linked in profile. so that the
management will be ready to reach out to them(Brewster and Hegewisch, 2017). Business can do
regular checking and tacking In mail and can identify various resumes of the candidate on indeed
, LinkedIn social networking profile that assist entity professionals in identifying various job
seekers who are looking for professional jobs and can also post relating to the available job
vacancies in company. through this medium the professionals can find most qualified and skilled
candidates that can increase the working efficiency of the firm. the business can also share the
current activities , events and operations of organisations with the large number of people. That
will attract the job seekers to apply for the job they were looking for.
Impact of internet on recruitment of external labour
Recruitment is the systematic process of hiring skilled candidates in business those who
can contribute well in achieving business objectives. In the recent era most of the companies are
taking support of online recruitment method in order to reach to large audience. One of the most
effective e- recruitment methods is company’s website (Batterham, 2014). business uploads
details of vacant posit on its website and ask applicants to upload their resume on its website.
Effectiveness of internet recruiting method for company is described as below:
Cost effective
company can saving its cost by sourcing best candidates through various online sources
those applicants who can perform well and can contribute well in accomplishing overall goal of
business unit. Recruitment and select is costly process and because entity has to invest huge
amount in order to conduct interview for the suitable applicants. By putting information about
vacant post on website business can minimise its cost to great extent (McRobert and et.al., 2018).
Each person recruitment cost is around hundred pounds but if people upload their resumes online
then human resource manager can scrutinise the suitable candidates and can call deserving
applicant for interview session. This can support business in minimising cost. Apart from this, if
enterprises takes support of external recruitment method and hire people through consultancy
firm then it will have to pay consultancy fee to the consultant. This would increase financial
burden on business and will impact on its overall net profit to great extent (Turban and et.al.,
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2017). In addition, if firm spend money in giving advertisement in new paper for the vacant post
then also it will have to pay money for the same. But online or internet recruitment process is
cost effective method because entity needs not to pay any kind of cost for getting suitable
candidates.
Quick and easy
enterprises is able to take quick decisions by taking less time in conducting the process of
sourcing .This is another major advantage of using internet for sourcing and hiring suitable
candidates for the organisation (Collings, Wood and Szamosi, 2018). The main agenda of
company is to hire talented and experience people those who can contribute well in
accomplishing goal of business unit. But finding suitable candidates is not an easy task, entity
has to look thousands resumes in order to find out deserving applicant. But using online
recruitment process is quick because people can upload their resume and necessary qualification
easily and that becomes easy for the human resource manager to scrutinise the suitable person
for vacant post (Brewster and Hegewisch, 2017). Many people upload their resumes and entity
can get large number of deserving candidates. This becomes easy to conduct interview session of
all applicants on same day one by one. By this way concern can get suitable person quickly.
Expanded pool of audience
online recruitment has expanded the number of skilled and qualified candidates. Internet
is the easiest source of making connection with large audience. This thing has connected people
across the world. is operating its business across the world and it has many branches in other
locations. There are many small size firms those do not find online recruitment process too
effective (Heilman, Manzi and Braun, 2015). But there are many professional persons those who
use Facebook and other social sites in order to find out better employment opportunities. Online
platform now has become the standard part of audience, by using this platform business can
reach to mass audience and can hire deserving candidates across the world. All age group people
those who have necessary skills and abilities can upload their resume and can find out best jobs
(Slavić, Bjekić and Berber, 2017). If entity uses recruitment agency for hiring people then it
would be able to get limited number of applicants and will have to select suitable person among
them but through internet it can receive resume of large number of persons that would help in
brining talented person in business unit.
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Efficiency
Internet helps in increasing the efficiency level of various employee working in company.
It is most convenient tool for hiring best candidates in the organisation, this online platform tools
gives opportunity to business unit to conduct pre- employment screening test, personally
assessment test before selecting the final applicant (Melanthiou, Pavlou and Constantinou, 2015).
By conducting pre-employment screening test entity can identify capabilities of person to work
in workplace and can make correct decision of hiring most deserving person in the company.
Through internet entity can match culture and values of individual and can interact with person
properly. This supports in analysing whether person is suitable for the organisation or not
(Advantages & Disadvantages of Online Recruitment, 2011). There are many recruitment
software that aids in customising needs of organisation and selecting the deserving candidates for
job accordingly. This is the best way of selecting suitable people in business; if talented people
come to the enterprise then they will perform well and will help in accomplishing goal of entity
(Advantages of Online Recruiting, 2018).
maintaining competitive advantage
sourcing candidate through social media assist company in maintaining competitive
position in business environment. Internet is a great source of attracting most suitable and
qualified candidate that can contribute in achieving the goals and objectives of company. there
are various job portals such as indeed , monster, LinkedIn, naukri.com from there companies
can post them job requirements and can identify the potential candidates for increasing the
efficiency and effectiveness of firms operations(Melanthiou, Pavlou and Constantinou, 2015).
Sourcing of best qualified , talented and qualified applicants can help in increasing the
competitive advantage of the firm.
Help in achieving organisational goals
social media platform such as Facebook, Instagram websites helps company in
identifying most qualified and suitable applicants that helps in increasing the operational
efficiency of the firm .company can achieving its pre established goals and objective with the
help of potential candidate that have abilities to find possible solutions for various difficult
situations(Batterham, 2014).enterprises use various job portals to identify various experienced
and inexperienced applicants that can contribute in achieving the success and growth for the
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organisation. business can post their job description on different portals and can attract suitable ,
skilled candidate to apply. Job description give a detailed idea to the job seekers regarding the
skills required for performing particular job role. that helps company in finding best talent in
minimum time.
Conclusion
From the above study it can be concluded that company can recruit the best skilled ,
talented and potential candidate through internet. social media platforms like Facebook,
Instagram, whatsapp is the best way to identify ,recruit suitable applicants for the right job at the
time. that assist firm in increasing its operational efficiency and building various management
strategies and taking suitable decisions in order achieve the organisational goals and objectives.
there are various job portals such as LinkedIn, Indeed, naukri.com, monster. that provides
services to both job seekers and job professionals. Enterprises can find required number of
skilled applicants through posting several job post on the portals . that helps in minimizing the
cost of the company. Firm also recruit candidate through various external sources such as
recruitment consultancy . The consultant helps in providing the best, skilled applicant and
charge a suitable amount from the company. That ultimately helps organisation in effectively
achieving the goals and objectives of the business concern .the entity is getting a pool of
experienced and inexperienced. candidate through social media platform.
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