Cyber Times International Journal of Technology & Management

The purpose of this paper is to determine the leading determinants of e-recruitment and also to reflect the fit of these factors in decision making. Understanding the influential factors of e-recruitment is imperative in measuring the dynamics and the probable success and failure of this contemporary source of recruitment. It has been marked by various authors that there has been a substantial increase in the number of factors, which are considered to be important while making a recruitment decision. An examination of the literature on the recruitment decisions in general may give some insight into the processes behind the leading factors of e-recruitment. The paper reports an exploratory study in the Indian services that elicits the determinants leading to e-recruitment, via a set of in-depth interviews with industrial experts and specialized academician corresponding to the development and application of a survey instrument, and then reflecting on the fit of these factors.