Coming to the point, the process of recruiting developed by companies over the years did give good results most of the time but at a very high cost... MONEY in the corporate sector is directly proportional to the TIME invested on a task, in this case Recruiting people.

The obvious choice was to rope in the Internet and use it to completely revolutionizes the concept of recruiting human resource, by reducing recruitment cycle time & cost.
They called it HR-Benchmarking .

Why angling on the net for top-notch talent pays.

The huge number of professionals who job-hunt on the net is staggering and growing at an even faster rate than ever. Recruitment has moved ahead of antique methods -receiving snail-mail applications, or relying on employee referral line-ups.

The reason is obvious. Job seekers have found the most effective way of making themselves marketable -choosing the Internet for job-hunting.

The job market

A dearth for competent persons is evident and employers go to great extents to get the right person aboard. Employers who resort to online recruiting find that there very little chance of missing out on the right candidate. This is especially true when hiring for high-end technologies.

This is because the elimination and the short listing happen on the net. The employer does not have to conduct an interview and then decide whether the candidate is suitable or not.

Technical skills, personality traits and behavioural patterns can be analysed by the use of online tests much before the interview stage itself.

The trend

Millions of job seekers are Net-searching hundreds of job-boards before looking at recruitment ads in newspapers or snail-mailing resumes. According to an electronic recruitment index, a consulting firm monitoring electronic resume traffic reports that 40 million jobs have been posted on the web through more than 2,500 recruitment sites!

Thus progressive companies need to have a robust Internet recruiting plan in place so that they don�t miss out on the skilled job seekers exclusively available on the net.

With more than 80% of the companies using the Internet as a primary recruiting tool, it is proof enough that e-recruiting works. If you are looking for high-flyers, take a tip from the people who have gained from Internet recruiting and try leveraging your recruitment process through the Internet now.

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