The Online HR Recruiting Literature: A Brief History of E-Recruiting
             The HR industry is obliged to admit that it got off to a shaky start in the 1990s, with reference to recruiting talent using online resources; for example, the hardware architecture on some personal computers may not have matched the HR Web site's platform; not every applicant was able to properly complete the online existing HR job application software due to a lack of integration of Macintosh vs. IBM-compatible issues; attachments didn't always open properly.
             But, but the dawn of the 21st Millennium, things were beginning to go more smoothly for the recruiting industry, as software and hardware innovations were coming of age. Indeed, an article in Information Week (Kay, 2000), reported that the recruiting industry was "in the middle of a fairly radical shift toward hiring via the Internet"; some 40% of HR professionals reported in a survey that they were "relying on Web job postings as well as Sunday newspaper classified ads."
             The portion of recruitment advertising budget dollars spent on the Internet was expected to increase to 32 percent in 2000, according to the article – with 52 percent of recruitment budgets being spend on newspaper ads, down from 70 percent the previous year. That trend of course has continued dramatically in the subsequent years, but it is interesting to note that just six years ago the Web was being recognized as a suitable replacement for "in-house and outside resume searches such as job fairs."
             The article points out that a "drawback" to online recruiting – at least at that moment in the technology's evolvement – was "the increase in resume flow" and "sorting out the most qualified candidates." The measure of how "radical" the shift has been from newspaper advertising to Web job postings, a 1999 study by the Society for Human Res...