Abstract
With close to 650 million users, LinkedIn's role in recruitment has been growing fast for the last couple of years. Indeed, jobseekers can post their résumé, companies can publish their job offers, recruitment agencies can contact potential candidates, etc. This new trend may or may not become a treat for those very recruitment and placement agencies.
The objective of this thesis is, in brief, to understand the organizational impact LinkedIn has and will have on the recruitment market in Belgium. Could there be a win-win situation for both players in the long run?
Extract
[...] Nevertheless, while those rates have been growing for the last past years in Belgium, compared to January 2018, there is no significant growth observed (Degraux, 2019). Knowing LinkedIn's penetration rate amounts to 39% among Belgian adults, this means 3.2 million Belgians own a LinkedIn account Nevertheless, a distinction has to be made between active and non-active users. Xavier Degraux, digital expert, argues that "if we extrapolate what we see at the global level, we can say that only half of these profiles are active on a monthly basis". [...]
[...] Strategic recruitment and HR planning is important to fill the necessary positions and maintain the profitability of a company. Aside from some strategic impetus, various societal challenges in Europe also push R & S practices forward. One of the most challenging and current drivers in the world, which is one of the most important migration trends in Europe, which, in fact, is one of the more complex societies and diverse labor markets (Artuc, Docquier, Ozden, & Parsons, 2015), (Eva Derous, Filip De Fruyt, 2016). [...]
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[...] Indeed, there are differences to be explained between the type of services or HR processes recruiting, staffing, headhunting, sourcing, and finally, talent acquisition; and also the type of partners (third parties) to execute part or total of the service. For every facet, different actors will intervene. This way, when an organization create a recruitment partnership with a third party? missing something? Selecting the right 1/3 party will depend on the organization (client), the type of job to fill in, the urgency?The partnership will differ depending on the job that has to be filled. [...]
