job boards, job portals, and, most recently, social networks, are increasingly being
used as the main recruitment sources for external candidates .
This is reflected in the initial definition of the term e-recruitment as being recruitment
of candidates on the Internet . With the evolution of enterprise
information systems and techniques deployed and used for recruitment purposes , e-recruitment has been further elaborated to include candidate management
technology and the recruitment process in general, e.g. tracking
applicants, selecting, offering jobs, or rejecting . These definitions
suggest a duality of the term e-recruitment, which may be simultaneously perceived
as the use of an Internet-based recruitment source and as technology-enabled
recruitment management practices. The main focus of the present research is on the
managerial side of recruitment, and not on the recruitment sources. Therefore, in this
paper e-recruitment is viewed and defined as the organisation of recruitment process
and activities, which, by means of technology and human agents, facilitate time- and
space-independent collaboration and interaction in order to identify, attract, and influence
competent candidates