An Investigation of the Challenges of Applying Technology in Recruitment

Due to human resource constraints and the serious competitions of these days, organizations have to seek out devices to direct them to acheive their goals. On the other hand, any device, as a technological product, can create challenges for organizations. It seems that the application of technology in human resource fields generally, and specifically in recruitment, brings about challenges. This study is concerned with the identification of challenges organizations come across in the application of internet for recruitment. The statistical population of this research contains human resource experts of 10 large companies in Yazd. Using judgmental sampling methods and snowballs, interviews were held for collecting data in the qualitative phase of the research. The interviews were pursued until theoretical saturation. MAXQDAL 11 was employed for data analysis, and 3 main themes, 7 peripheral themes and 24 concepts were identified as relating to human resource challenges for internet recruitment. All in all, three types of challenges including technological, operational and environmental ones were identified as the main challenges for internet recruitment.