Methods of recruitment and selection of new employees are rapidly changing with the growth of Internet and on-line communication networks. E-recruitment strongly depends of number of Internet users in the country.
More and more positions are recruited through on-line e-recruitment. Due to the fact, that educated, intelligent and wealthy persons own PC and have Internet connection, the covert by e-recruitment positions are targeted mostly on these people.
Almost 95% of IT specialists are hired this way in Czech Republic. In this article, we give definition of terms like e-recruitment, e-selection, e-resume and others.
Partly we discuss also video interviewing, on-line testing and other tools of e-recruitment. We discuss strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Strengths are for example savings around 60 % of recruitment costs, less reliance on external recruiters and lower average time for filling vacancies (around 40 days). As a special case we cover Czech experience with e-recruitment - r