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Sustainable e-Recruiting Portals: How to Motivate Applicants to Stay Connected throughout their Careers?

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  • Elfi Furtmüller

    (University of Twente, the Netherlands)

  • Celeste Wilderom

    (University of Twente, the Netherlands)

  • Rolf van Dick

    (University of Frankfurt, Germany)

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Since most e-recruiting portals suffer from outdated applicant profiles and receive little user return as soon as applicants have found a new job, in this study, the authors explore how to motivate applicants to keep their profiles up-to-date and stay connected with one specific recruiting portal throughout their careers. The authors interviewed applicants, system analysts and programmers of an Austrian e-recruiting portal. Narratives showing striking differences between these three stakeholders’ interpretation of system requirements for long-term usage are discussed. The identified requirements point to niche recruiting: integrating social network and community features for specified user segments sharing a similar social identity and fostering pre-existing offline ties among users for career purposes. Implications are sketched for more sustainable e-recruiting research, design and development.

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  • Elfi Furtmüller & Celeste Wilderom & Rolf van Dick, 2010. "Sustainable e-Recruiting Portals: How to Motivate Applicants to Stay Connected throughout their Careers?," International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI), IGI Global, vol. 6(3), pages 1-20, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jthi00:v:6:y:2010:i:3:p:1-20
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