Advantages and shortcomings on the cv-online career vortal in Latvia

Abstract

CV-Online is Latvia’s leading personnel selection service provider on the Internet in Latvia. It uses the Internet environment to seek out personnel, and it offers a full scope of services to employers and employees alike.

The aim of this research is to study the advantages and shortcomings of the recruitment procedure insofar as the CV-Online Latvia vortal is concerned.

The author has mostly made reference to the works of Anderson, Salgado and Weddle in the paper. The research cohort was made up of two groups – 163 employers and 7,426 employees (the survey method was used). There were also structured interviews with senior staff at CV-Online Latvia.

The hypothesis of the author is that when personnel selection is conducted in the Internet environment, shortcomings include the impersonal nature of the process, the large number of applications that are at an unacceptable level of quality, as well as discrimination against those who have no access to the Internet or do not use it. Advantages include speed, which allows clients to save on time and financial resources, as well as the establishment of a broad target audience in the process. The hypothesis was proven.