One of the major developments in recruitment in recent years is the introduction of online recruitment made possible by the internet. Online recruitment allows employers to located job candidates in a swift and economical manner and also offers a number of major benefits.

For one thing it allows organisations to advertise online at very low cost. They can do this at a number of job boards and job search engines such as monster.com which is a general job board and dice.com which specialises in job search for technology professionals.

Job seekers continually browse these boards looking for suitable positions and sophisticated search facilities allow them to pinpoint their ideal job in terms of qualifications, salary and geographical location.

In addition, job seekers post their resumes these boards allowing organisations to search and browse for suitable candidates. These sites range from large scale generalist boards to niche markets such as engineering, legal, insurance, social work and teaching.

On the downside, only people who are actively seeking work will post their resumes to these sites; others suitable candidates who are currently in employment may well be reluctant to post résumés online for fear of them being seen by current employers and colleagues.

Free or low cost advertising of positions vacant is also possible at general classified ads sites such as craigslist.com which is organised into geographical area and covers most countries in the world.

Other than linking up employee and employer and streamlining the recruitment process, the online job scene is a great source of information for both parties about the current state of the job market in their field.