LITERATURE REVIEW

Literature Review

[Name of the institute]Literature Review

Introduction

In every field, whether business or education, medicine or engineering, the role of research is indispensable for the growth of the field. For that purpose, it is significant to impart best possible knowledge to students about research. Performing the process of research is not enough; practitioners, scholars and students must also know how to utilize the research that already exists. Performing the process of critique about the research report also provides a great deal of information and can ultimately result in the advancement and growth of the field by pointing out the positive, negative, strong and weak points of the research report. Critiquing and analyzing research also helps in grasping in-depth information about the research process and research methods. The aim of this paper is also to perform the critical analysis of two research studies. To fulfil the purpose of this paper two research articles are selected and then these studies are analyzed in a critical way.

Critical Review of First Article

The first article that is selected to review critically is titled as “Online Hiring Tools Are Changing Recruiting Techniques”. This article is written by Mark Cohen and is published in renowned New York Times in the year 2013. The title of the article suggests this article talks about one of the major and core functions of human resource that is, this article talks about recruitment. In this article, Mark Cohen talks about the latest trends about the recruitment tools and methods that are in place and the tools and methods that are utilised by the recruitment managers in today's era. The article basically provides a great deal of information about the online recruitment strategies that are in vogue these days. The crux of this article is to assert that people think that there are drastic changes that are taking place in the recruitment process as a result of the advent of technology and increased usage of technology. This crux is truly justified by the writer as he quotes various practical examples to elaborate the actual scenario (Cohen, 2013, A-1).

First of all, the article begins by describing the scenario of an organisation “Opower” that has to recruit 71 new employees. In order to achieve this, the tool that is utilised by the recruitment manager of Opower is LinkedIn. All these 71 jobs are posted on LinkedIn by Opower (Cohen, 2013, A-1).

While describing this new way to generate the ideal candidates it is purported by the author that for recruiters it is necessary that they should have ideal and appropriate tools. LinkedIn is a forum that has almost 200 million members. This forum offers a wide and diverse range of employees to the recruiters. However, it is also important to take into consideration that eighty percent of the members of LinkedIn may not be searching for jobs but they may get attracted towards an opportunity if it interests them. Another very important facet that should be paid emphasis on is that all the LinkedIn members may ...