All are increasingly possible. Thanks to greater technological maturity, HR is now being outsourced via the Internet. Instead of handing responsibility over lock stock and barrel, the emphasis of eHR is on mutually beneficial partnerships. Increasingly recruitment agencies are working with corporate web sites. PeopleBank, for example, has an online database of CVs.
Applicants fill in an application form that is then processed by the technology for relevance.
It is then over to the company to identify a short-list and a candidate. But while outsourcing and more sophisticated uses of technology are set to continue to grow, reservations remain. Online recruitment, for example, has its doubters. Our research shows that only one percent of recruiters for professional positions viewed it as a useful method, and only two percent for those recruiting for managerial or skilled positions viewed it as being more effective than other ways of recruiting. Privacy remains an issue.