Internet Staffing Methods Compared to Traditional Staffing Methods

Cost, Time, Quality and Retention

Abstract

The Internet technology has revolutionized almost every field of information around the world and has been bringing amazing changes and revolutions in staffing and recruiting process. This paper is about the positive outcomes of implementing internet practices in staffing as compared to the traditional staffing methods. Staffing is considered as the biggest sector that is highly influenced by internet. This new technology has provided a wide-ranging recognition of computerized evaluation and it can also be expected that it will replace the print media in upcoming days. Comparing the technologies of internet staffing with traditional staffing, this paper will further discuss the drawbacks of traditional staffing that can now overcome with the implementation of internet that has not only helped the organizations to enhance their business in the competitive market place but it has also helped them to maintain their positions. This paper will suggest the HR Managers to be acknowledged with the rising significance of online recruitment and to plan such strategies that can completely utilize the facility of Internet as a major source of hiring skilled and talented candidates.

Internet Staffing Methods Compared to Traditional Staffing Methods

Cost, Time, Quality and Retention

Introduction

Strategic staffing works as an essential key element to recognize and deal with the concerns related to staffing in various departments of an organization. The HR managers who are involved in implementing the process of strategic staffing must be aware of its knowledge, information, expertise, examples, experience, tools and other resources. They should avail the strategic staffing planning abilities to execute their process in an efficient manner. The strategic staffing through internet can meet these possibilities immediately without consuming much time and costs. The channels of traditional staffing also offered the required facilities but they are somehow ineffective as they had the same sort of information for all the users regardless to their specific requirements. These traditional methods were also seemed to be inefficient regarding costs and time consumption.

The methods of traditional staffing were very time consuming. The companies used to publish their job advertisements in newspapers. Candidates from different fields applied and posted their resume to the companies' HR department without focusing on the specific criteria. As a result, the companies received huge stock of resumes. To separate the relevant resumes for recruitment was a difficult and time consuming task. Hiring process took months to get completed but now as social media and internet has introduced in the field of staffing, so the organizations are facilitated by implementing its appropriate and convenient practices of recruitment, producing perfect results.

More companies are now focused to internet staffing and hiring through social media which is helping them to target the most qualified and talented candidates within a huge stock of applicants, by keeping in view their specific fields. The department of human resources can influence social media to strike in to potential workers. It is considered to be a source of head hunting implementing the tools and technologies of social media and ...