ONLINE APPLICATION PROCESS

Online Application Process



Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION3

Background of the Study3

Significance of the Study7

Statement of the Problem11

Purpose of the Study11

Research Questions12

Hypotheses12

Study Variables13

Population13

Geographical Locations14

Online Application Process

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Applying for jobs in this highly competitive market is challenging at best even for the most skilled workers (Addison and Surfield, 2009). Most company's today recruit entirely online (Pollitt, 2008). The unemployed job seeker for online application is a barrier to gain employment, largely because it is a perception that everyone knows how to surf the Internet in the information age with the necessary tools. This includes an e-mail account and online network to assist with the application process (Muir, 2009). Actively applying for work has been associated with the greatest likelihood of finding employment. Further, focusing on just employment barriers ignores the structural nature of unemployment and the structural nature of employment within the online application process. A closer look at the process of applying online is necessary to understand the current means to acquire a job.

Online application process, also known within the literature as online recruitment, Internet recruiting or cyber-recruiting refers to the practice of advertising job vacancies online, and the formal sourcing of information about jobs online. While the online application process si a relatively new concept for many organizations, articles on the topic first started appearing in the mid-1980s. However, it was not until almost a decade later in the mid-1990s that more systematic and rigorous literature and research on online application process began to appear in the journals of human resource. The rise in the amount of literature on online application process initially attributed to the sudden increase in the use of online application process by IT company's and universities although as the technology field is constantly changing and progressing, much of what has discussed in literature. It is important that new research on online application process regularly published to report recent developments as they arise (Carroll, Marchington, Earnshaw and Taylor, 1999).

Within developed countries, more than 75% of human resource professionals utilise Internet recruitment methods that is Internet job boards in conjunction with more traditional recruitment methods, such as newspaper advertisements and employee referrals. Among job seekers, an estimated one on four utilise the Internet to source job opportunities. Further evidence of the growing use and reliance on online application process documented in a study undertaken by Wuensch (2008) who found that All of the Fortune 100 companies as listed by the 2003 Fortune magazine used some form of online application process to advertise positions vacant.

The human resources planning helps in the future requirement and assessesing and creating jobs. The jobs are advertised through various communication channels, which include the company's website, newspapers, and third party HR websites.

Interested candidates can visit XYZ Retail Store website to fill the online application form where the applicant fills in the information required in the application, which may include some verbal, numerical, and personality tests which will enable the company gathering all the information that it ...