The important methods of e-recruitment are listed below:
1) Job Boards: These sites are searched by the probable job seekers and they find all the details related to the particular job of a particular company such as number of vacancies, etc. Certain job boards are designed to recruit specifically skilled candidates. Job boards get a large number of responses from job seekers.
2) Employer Websites: These are the sites developed either by a company or by recruiting managers of various companies.
3) Professional Websites: These sites cater to the need of skilled professionals and specify certain criteria related to their job.
4) Virtual Job Fair: This is an online recruiting method which is used by recruiting managers of different companies which may sometimes be a single person or a team of reciuiters. For example, an online job fair may be organized by a company interconnecting different schools and colleges through a computer network. Such a process enables students to send their resume online 24 hours and 7 days in a week. It makes available to them a plethora of opportunities for talented students. The recruiters also get an idea of skilled persons available to them and it helps them to select the best one quickly and easily. It benefits both the employers and the candidates in a cheap and time-saving way and thus helping each other.
5) Weblogs: Weblogs or blogs offer more online options while searching for some information and thus changing people’s preferences. In the view of some recruiters and recruiting companies, these blogs help jobseekers to find detailed and secret background information related to various companies and also help them in the same way. All types of information related to the age, status, cost of one’s house, educational qualifications and the silly mistakes committed by them in college, clothes or dresses, financial status, political preferences and the names and ages of one’s children is available on these blogs. As a person, himself or herself puts such information on these blogs so no disclosure is required.
6) General Employment Websites: Most companies use job websites for stating the nature of the job, required skills, experience as well as the location or the area of work. The option ‘Search Candidates’ presents a list of those applicants who matches the skills with those of job requirements. The number of sites appears to increase and decrease daily.
7) Career Websites: These professionally inclined websites are fully available online. It gives information of general nature and also certain pieces of advice but its main work is to store resumes of applicants online and thus making them available to recruiters for their easy scanning and selection. These websites charge certain fees from the recruiters for giving them access to such information as is needed by them. These websites also help a lot of those job seekers who want this website’s help by presenting job category, area of posting and the essential qualifications as well as age limits, etc.
8) Official Website of the Country: Some countries have official websites offering all types of information to help young men and women in getting the role of their choice.
9) Contract Workers’ Sites: Earlier, the workers of a company who were employed for a limited time only were also considered as an available option in place of new recruitments. There are certain websites which help this section of employees. For example, a freelance writer can search such websites which can provide him the required work and he can also post his own credentials and thus make himself marketable internally. Now a day such websites are also available which let a jobseeker to post his skills, expected salary, etc. and thus help them to choose a recruiter.
10) Niche Job Board: These job boards give opportunities to talented professionals on the basis of their profession, specialization, location, or a combination of two or more of these. Some of these boards are specially designed to draw a certain talent from society such as engineers, computer programmers, journalists, architects, etc., who can exchange their expertise, knowledge, experience, talent, etc., in an easy manner.
11) E-Recruiting Application Service Providers: These service providers expand and make available all the recruitment training software, recruitment process management, education and training and managerial skills to the employers. The fierce competitive labour market for IT professionals has forced many small and average companies to application service providers.
12) Hybrid Recruiting System: These are very old media and recruiting companies that make available services to both jobseekers and their recruiters. Now the usual advertisement of print media has suffered untold loss because recruiters prefer online recruiting process for its efficiency, time saving and energy saving approach.