What is online recruitment?
Online recruitment, also known as e-recruitment, is the use of the World Wide Web and other ‘online’ or internet technologies to help the recruitment process. Online recruitment is commonly used by recruitment agencies and recruitment businesses to help source candidates and workers. Increasingly other organisations that wish to recruit directly are also turning to online recruitment to help them increase effectiveness and reduce costs. A wide variety of technologies can be used in online recruitment. Chief among these are online recruitment software and job board software. Jobshout fits into both of these categories, but, unusually, it is an online service, or Software as a Service (SaaS) rather than software, which has to be installed and maintained by the client. In 2006 almost two-thirds of responders to a survey conducted by CIPD described themselves as using e-recruitment, and there is no doubt that this percentage will have increased significantly since then. The internet is now
