Influence Of E-Recruitment Implementation On Employee Selection And Recruitment At Kisii Level 5 Hospital, Kisii County, Kenya

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