Drawbacks of Online Recruitment

With many of the benefits of online recruitment, businesses are using the Internet for recruiting purpose. There are, however, certain drawbacks that limit any company for recruiting and hiring online. Besides the drawbacks of recruitment, company may face the challenge of communication. In this article, we will discuss the drawback of online recruitment.

Following are the drawbacks of online recruitment

• Large volume of responses: As the websites can be viewed by anyone across the world, there are large volume of responses for which you need time to go through each application. For avoiding unsuitable applications, you should be careful when posting job description and try to be specific particularly about the duties and responsibilities of one in the  job and the qualifications required.

• Technological issues: If the process of hiring involves applications to be filled, you may be missing out the qualified candidates who will just send a resume. Many applicants do not like the time taken online after submission of the resume, as there is a probability of slow-down of operations during submission process. Therefore, they might not be serious about the job especially when the company is recruiting online.

• It involves competition on large scale: As there are numerous jobs posted online and many people on the look out for jobs can miss out your job ad. Thus, they apply for other jobs.

• Less direct contact: As recruiting happens online, interviews are usually conducted on telephones by which human resource professionals can't read and judge the candidate's personality and attitude.

• Dissatisfaction of candidates: Many candidates prefer for traditional methods of job searching such as news papers, employment agencies etc. If the company is relying entirely on online recruitment, then probably they will miss out talented candidates.

• Specialized jobs: Many jobs need specific experiences and skills that a company can't reach them through online recruitment process. In this case, more proactive approach is required like head hunting for jobs.

• False information: This can be dangerous for the recruitment process. Whatever the candidate specified in the resume might not necessarily match the skills and experiences they actually have. The skills that they mentioned in the resume may not be verified until they meet the candidate in person.

• Limited scope: The company is not not able to reach candidates that do not log on to websites. This makes the scope of online recruitment limited.

Considering these practices, companies should plan their hiring strategies so that they do not face the constraints in the process.