E-Recruitment and the labor market

Résumé du document

E-recruitment could be defined as the use of internet for recruiting. E-recruitment is recent in France. It was created during 2000's and is yet to evolve to become the first media used by French people to their job seek.

E-recruitment mainly consists of spreading job offers on websites specialized and the diffusion of CV over the Internet. But exceeding this, basically functions which could be offered by a classical newspaper, e-recruitment allows meeting the need of a labor market in revolution.

60 years ago, "baby-boomers" were born. Today, these people are ready to retire from active life in letting a sad labor market, where the skilled labor force is becoming rare.

This demographic environment is worrying several Human Resources Directors who are trying to find some successors by any way they can, to these salaries who will bring with their retirement their specifically know-how.

Besides, the labor market is suffering from other symptoms: inadequacy of education of young graduates and the need of the companies.

France didn't know how to adapt the university courses to the wait for a market which is suffering of shortage of some jobs, for instance technical jobs.

Others phenomenon could explain the actual market situation, like the globalization. Several French choose to work abroad for diverse reasons. All these elements modified the labor market and its stakes.

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[...] - What are the main perspectives of evolution? - Who are the people using Internet to look for a job? To define this study, I stayed in the domestic market, in analysing the French labour market. Synopsis A. Labour market and stakes A Labour market in evolution a. A strong demographic environment b. A social environment c. A technological environment d. Globalisation e. Externalisation The added value of Human Resources a. The evolution of Human Resources Policy b. The company focused on the man c. [...]

[...] All these elements modified the labour market and its stakes. In this context, Human Resources took a strategic dimension to attract candidates rarer. In addition, the evolution from the industrial jobs to the service jobs place people on the focus of the economic development of the company. Productivity is not linked to the performance of machines for numerous French companies, but really to the skills of the collaborators. E-recruitment naturally grew in strategic market where the sourcing is became the daily task of Human Resources. [...]

[...] We are watching the creation of the V-recruitment V for Virtual. Of course, a recruiter has to target precisely the profile to look for on Second life. This universe seems to be perfect to detect IT profile, as engineering people. This means allows to attract attention and to detect candidates to obtain then, a real interview. Obviously, second life enables to chat directly with recruiters, but the virtual interview has some limits, and the virtual could replace in 20 minutes face-to-face interview. [...]

[...] The recent reform of university illustrated this problem which has to be resolve. Each year, thousands of job offers published by companies still be in vacation because of no-answer. In the same time, the country has officially about unemployment people in France who still to look for a job. Therefore, we notice an unbalanced labour market because of the inadequacy between the important skilled people in sector without outlets (sports, communication ) and the sectors in shortage of skilled candidates (constructions, health ) c. [...]

[...] Quickly and convenient, the business is growing. From 100.000 registers in October 2005, the number of people registered in October 2007 is about This is a grow of in 2 years. First of all convenient for candidates to connect with directly with recruiters, the contrary is also true. More and more Human Resources administrators are looking for new talents by this way, particularly for high skilled people, difficult to recruit. Besides, to rise their visibility and own network, people could be active on forums in talking about different issues linked to theirs jobs or theirs passions. [...]