A Study on factors affecting Job Seekers’ Perception and Behavioural Intention towards E- Recruitment

Abstract

Technology has played a vital role in education not only in enhancing the students’ academic excellence, improving teacher’s professional quality but also had proved pertinent in the recruitment of the students once they become job seekers. Where education makes them ready to be recruited in the industry, technology eases the process of recruitment through E-Recruitment (Tong, 2019)1. With technological development, the modern way of recruitment (E-recruitment) is used in majority of the corporates and the present generation with the strong inclination towards technology are dominating the work sphere and increasing efficiency and effectiveness at workplace. E-Recruitment is the latest trend and has been adopted by many large and small corporations. Augmented use of e-recruitment methods and systems facilitates this trend by eliminating much of the routine administrative work involved in recruiting and allowing human resource manager to more easily monitor and track recruitment related activities. (Holm, 201).2 The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of factors on perception of Job Seekers, who are millennial students in this study, and their behavioural intention (BI) towards E-Recruitment. The type of research employed in this study is exploratory cum descriptive. Factor Analysis and regression are used as tools of analysis. In the conclusion, this study will enable one to understand that there is a significant effect of perception of job seekers on intention towards e-recruitment.