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Comparison of Traditional Methods V/S Modern Methods

1. In past, companies generally used local paper advertisements as newspaper was the
cheapest mode and every one can afford to buy a newspaper. But now, Local paper
advertisements are there but, in less demand, instead of this, companies generally make
use of recruitment sites like LinkedIn, Naukri to post any job vacancies and make their
work load reduced and their work gets done.

2. In old days, recruiters will go to houses in search of candidates personally who have
completed 10th, 12th, graduation or post-graduation and recruit them. But now, they go to
colleges when they are about to leave/complete their specific studies and post their
vacancies for the freshers and complete the hiring process.

3. Previously, there used to be District Employment Exchange i.e. any candidate who has
completed his studies has to come and register his name and if any vacancies are there,
he/she used to be informed about that vacancies. But now, the candidates who
completed his studies, register his/her name in Employment Sites like LinkedIn, indeed
etc. to get notice of any vacancies.

4. Previously, interviews took place at the place of employment at the manager’s office
with job applicants coming with their resumes, well-dressed to impress the selection
panel and the selection team prepared questions for the interview. Now, the resumes,
documents, certificates, all have to be submitted online during submitting the
application. And of course, maximum work is carried out in soft copy/online form.

5. And another traditional method is internal hiring i.e. one employee will be multiple
works of different departments according to his potential. Now, we have sufficient
workforce for companies to recruit, so they make use of it.

6. During those days, interviews were conducted face-to-face i.e. employer and candidate
will be facing each other and employer will ask questions to the candidate. Now, due to
flexibility video interviewing is the prevailing one in the society i.e. interviews conducted
through skype and other video calling facilities etc.

7. Previously, they used to dump all the candidate’s profiles and resumes who are not
being selected and used to store those data of candidates who are selected. But now due
to advancements of technology, companies are using cloud storage to store the
information of the candidates who are being selected and who are not selected also.
Whenever there is an urgent vacancy, they make use of the cloud storages and go
through it and hire the candidate of the profession or qualities.
8. Now in modern days, job fairs are being conducted where stalls are put for each and
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every company, and job seekers are invited to each and every stall. Here, every company
shows their work culture, ethics and convince the applicants. By doing this, companies
can attract a large pool of people from different fields to attain best talent.

9. Now, for higher position vacancies most companies during modern era uses this
method i.e. they seek for limited number of candidates those are correct handlers of the
present scenarios. This method is known as “Head Hunting”.

Advantages of Modern Technology in HRM

1. Talent management software (TMS) is one sort of HR management tool that helps in
proper functioning of talent management suites, integrated HR systems and working of
all: recruiting, training, payroll scheduling, benefits etc. These also help us in building,
tracking and managing professional development and performance of employees and
potential of candidates.

2. Talent management solution is also a prevailing modern tool used in smooth

functioning of HR payroll and benefits administration. By this, businesses can get better
innovation and your employees to perform better. In short, it is a type of software which
simplifies business process and allows procedures for improvements in top talent in the
company.

3. Safe Document Management is another remarkable tool which maintains all the
information in one centralized secured location and ensures its accessibility at point of
time. And Cloud-based Management solutions keeps our data protected and provides
access to the information when there arise some physical emergencies. And also
decreases paperwork and allows the company to route a paper-free atmosphere.

4. Artificial Intelligence is the most updated technology which eases the burden of HR
department to a wider extent. AI gathers perceptions by employee connections on CRM
or collaboration software or even with the help of E-Mails to collect data about employee
satisfaction, productivity and engagement and motivation. And AI also through
intelligent chatbots collects meaningful data and provides in a modified manner. This can
show everything about your organisational sales status, measuring employee stress
points in given connections and other important feedback on productivity.

5. Conversational AI is also trained in such a manner that it can send alerts from new
state regulations to approaching deadlines to the busy HR team. It can also ease to alert
the employees of any outstanding items or materials which affect them directly or
indirectly. Also, it can alert employees of benefits provided to them and can answer the
basic/simple questions like meetings schedules, paperwork entries, walking of an
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employee through its applications.

6. Big Data Analytics is also a modern tool creating more work convenience. Now a days,
Companies are carrying out continuous real-time assessment strategies for their staff
and feed them back immediately. It means they can now identify areas of improvements
and develop plans and addressing them and support them in order them to achieve their
goals.

T. Bhuvan Sai Karthik

Pearson BTEC Level 5 HND in Business
Regd No: 123456