A STUDY ON EMPLOYEE PERCEPTION ABOUT ONLINE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Abstract

Recruitment is a part of the Human Resource management of an organisation which is of major importance as it helps an organisation in finding suitable candidates to work towards a common goal. The HR departments of organisations continuously work towards optimising current recruitment practices to source, screen and onboard the best fits for their teams while attempting to reduce the cost, time to hire and provide flexibility to the candidates to ensure their retention within the organisation. The COVID pandemic is having a considerable influence on the business sector and also offices. The effect might be seen in several sectors, ventures, and employment settings. COVID-19 has actually led to considerable changes in our modes of communication, the way we work, transport, as well as other everyday activities, along with changes in the basic principles and practises of staff recruiting. It has forced us to adapt to and concession with the situation throughout. Whatever the conditions, the globe and also its organizations need to continue to function. Business today are hectic creating novel methods of hiring while maintaining social range criteria in mind in order to achieve their organisations' recruitment objectives while continuing to work as usual. As a consequence of the crisis, organisations adopted online-recruitment process for continuing with their recruitment practices and integrating it with the work-from-home model of the organisation. Even though it was the need of the hour, it is important for candidates to have faith in the new process since it affects their possibility to selection in their dream organisations. Thus this study is targeted at the working professionals who have undergone the process of online recruitment and to understand their perspective towards the successful administration of online practices to analyse their skill, knowledge and fitment in the organisation. With the help of this study, we found that there is a general positive outlook of candidates towards online-recruitment process and they have confidence in xi the same. Owing to this, it can be thought of as a process which can be adopted by the organisations even after the pandemic ends.