Many companies nowadays have changed or have added extra mediums to promote any job vacancies in their organization. The most famous web-based recruiting sites are jobstreet.com and www.jobmalaysia.gov.my. In fact, there are many other web-based job vacancies advertisements that had been developed to help applicants to find a job. At the meantime, it also helps the recruitment manager to get applicants to apply for the job vacancies. That is why the web based recruiting and staffing system were developed, to help the human resource management to find the right people to fill the job vacancies in organization as well as to decrease employees’ turnover. It operates as the hiring system, positioning employees to the right sit, retaining employees and many other functions. Any system must be created for their advantages, however this system also have some disadvantages.
Having a web-based system provides plenty of benefits to an organization, such as it will be able to reach a wide range of target. It may also reduce cost and time. Imagine if you use the spread sheet or newspaper to spread the job vacancies information, it will cost you a lot of papers, commission pay and takes time too. This system also makes the selection process goes easier. By using the website, employer can always update any new requirements for the job and can be read by applicants and also the current staff as to improve their skills according to the requirement. By that, this system can help to maintain qualified workers in the company. As we know, internet is a borderless network and travel fast. So, anybody can get information through internet, it is easy and fast.
However, there are some limitations of using this web based system. When this web based becoming easier to be accessed by applicant, employers tend to receive a huge amount of unqualified candidates mixed up with the qualified ones. Candidates also face information overload from the company since that the company’s website spill out various of information to be read by visitors and applicants. So these applicants may have to search back the necessary information from the site. Other than that, the system usually requires user name and password, means that not everyone can have the access to the information. Moreover, some companies created a super duper advance website which requires a manual to explore the website. Last but not least, the most disadvantageous thing about web based system is that the information may be corrupted or missing due to the spyware and virus.
As a conclusion, using the web based system on recruitment and staffing have many implications to the users; either to the employer, employee or applicants. This system makes it easy to the human resource administration to organize recruitment and staffing tasks, also create a wide range of accessibility to other users including a broad labour market.
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