Applicants’ Perceptions on Online Recruitment Procedures

This study focuses on the applicants’ perception of various modes of e-recruitment, namely employment websites (like monster.com or naukri.com) and career sections of corporate websites. The perception is measured based on five constructs, namely perceived efficiency, user-friendliness, information provision, fairness perception and internet selection image of the company. The perception is measured using a 26 item questionnaire among postgraduate students enrolled for three different management programmes of one of the leading management institutes in India. It was found out that there was a significant difference in perception between career section of a corporate website and employment websites except for the constructs, user friendliness and fairness perception. It was also established that the programme that the student was pursuing and the previous work experience had a significant impact on the perception of online application systems of the candidates.