CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

The purpose of this study is to develop an online recruitment software that would facilitate the fast and
accurate selection of qualified applicants.

2.0 Foreign Literature

According to the theory of Parry & Tyson over a six year period of conducting studies on the recruitment
activities of corporations they found out that the most common reason of using corporate or
commercial websites in their recruitment were cost-effectiveness (75%), ease of use or candidates
(64%), a larger candidate pool (53%), ease of use for the organization (52%), speed to hire (52%) and
company policy (50%).“On the other hand, the less common reasons were success in finding candidates
(44%) and keeping ahead of competitors (32%)”.

Another review of Kar & Bhattacharya where they conducted a similar study where they determined the
factors that could contribute the effectiveness of the job portals and the elements of the job portal that
could help increase the users’ satisfaction on the use of portal. The study established that the age group
of 18-22 years old and 33 years old and above had more likely to search jobs through job portals.