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HR
It
is the quality and the standard of the human resource recruited
that plays a key roll in differentiating between a successful
organisations and a "run of mill" organisation . In
this section, we will discuss the issues relating to this valuable
resource through a series of articles. And yes, we are
open to contributions from masters of this Art ... Are you one?
Surveying
e-hiring trends
HR
professions are moving ahead with times and have warmed up to
Internet tools to ease out the recruiting process. A survey
conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM),
reveals the popularity of e-hiring methods.
The
survey indicated that nearly half the employers normally receive
resumes that are delivered electronically. The HR departments
of large organisations expect to see this number increase over
the next year.
A quarter of all organisations are using electronic methods
to scan and store resume details in a database. Some organisations
then prefer to run searches on the database to retrieve resumes
that match their criteria. Unsolicited resumes are a common
occurrence. They are normally kept on hold or filed away for
further reference, instead of being trashed. Only a tenth of
all unwanted resumes are discarded.
With resumes come cover letters. The quality of cover letters
and resumes was good on the whole, and a small number were also
rated as excellent. Most employers admit to discarding the resumes
of candidates that have grammatical or typographical errors.
The
majority of employers prefer to speed-read resumes, taking about
three minutes to scan a copy and half of them prefer it to be
only one page long.
Dependence
on newspapers is passé as resumes can be got instantly.
Recruiters will now spend less on newspapers and recruiting
consultancies, and online recruitment worldwide is predicted
to grow to $7.1 Billion by the year 2005. Recruiters also prefer
to advertise on national and niche career sites. In relation
to this, employers look for a career site that has a lot of
traffic flowing into it.
With
employers preferring to integrate new-end technologies to make
the recruiting process effective, a look at the current trends
will give you a fair idea of what the other are doing to manage
their recruitment business.
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