There are many benefits – both to the employers and the job seekers but the e-recruitment is not free from a few shortcomings. Some of the advantages and the disadvantages of e- recruitment are as follows:

Advantages of E-Recruitment are:

Lower costs to the organisation. Also, posting jobs online is cheaper than advertising in the newspapers.

No intermediaries.

Reduction in the time for recruitment (over 65 percent of the hiring time).

Facilitates the recruitment of right type of people with the required skills.

Improved efficiency of recruitment process.

Gives a 24*7 access to an online collection of resumes.

Online recruitment helps the organisations to weed out the unqualified candidates in an automated way.

Recruitment websites also provide valuable data and information regarding the compensation offered by the competitors etc. which helps the HR managers to take various HR decisions like promotions, salary trends in industry etc

Disadvantages of E-Recruitment

Apart from the various benefits, e-recruitment has its own share of shortcomings and disadvantages. Some of them are:

Screening and checking the skill mapping and authenticity of million of resumes is a problem and time consuming exercise for organisations.

There is low Internet penetration and no access and lack of awareness of internet in many locations across India.

Organisations cannot be dependant solely and totally on the online recruitment methods.

In India, the employers and the employees still prefer a face-to-face interaction rather than sending e-mails.