Abstract:
The traditional approach to recruitment has been revolutionized by the concept of
online recruitment (or E-Recruitment). Due to the diffusion of the Internet in
combination with an increasing number of users, the concept of E-Recruitment has
gone through a rapid growth. This study explores the implementation of E-recruitment
system; the study is applied to the Kisii Level 5 Hospital. The population of the study
includes all Kisii Level 5 Hospital staff working in hospital at different levels that
consist of 150 employees; the descriptive method was used to achieve the objectives
of the study. Written questionnaire responses from 125 staff member working in the
Kisii Level 5 Hospital and mainly who are working in the field of recruitment and
Human resources. Research findings show that there is a direct relationship between
E-recruitment and the benefits, importance and advantages of using the system for the
Kisii Level 5 Hospital, the E-recruitment implementation Center has adequate
infrastructure that is capable to run and maintain a proper use of the E-recruitment
system in terms of having the needed software, servers and hardware, on the other
hand the top managements has a positive impact on supporting the implementation of
the E-recruitment system in the Kisii Level 5 Hospital through allocating the
necessary budget to be in line with other international online recruitment systems.
Also the findings show that E-recruitment system used in the Kisii Level 5 Hospital
neither provide the possibility to send online tests nor conducting interviews via video
link with the job seekers who are being shortlisted as the first candidates for the
vacancies. In recommendation the Kisii Level 5 Hospital need to enhance the E recruitment system in order to reduce the financial and administrative costs rising
from advertising the vacancies in newspaper, magazines and other websites, the
number of job seekers who are interested to apply for the vacancies as they can
simply access the organizations websites, overview the jobs and apply online for the
jobs with only one click. Also E-recruitment systems need to improve the way of
monitoring the online recruitment process in terms of short listing, trenching, tests ,
interviews and to have an internal electronic tracking system for the status of job
seeker’s application at each stage of the recruitment process
