IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/lum/rev3rl/v11y2020i1p20-41.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Impact of Social Media Recruitment on Job Candidates’ Perceptions: Evidence from Bangladeshi Fresh Graduates

Author

Listed:
  • Sajjad Hosain

    (Sichuan University)

  • Ping Liu

    (Business School, Sichuan University)

Abstract

The study intends to identify the impact social media recruitment (SMR) on job candidates‟ overall perception (OP) in Bangladesh. For this purpose, the authors have employed two independent variables of SMR: perceived advantage (PA) and perceived ease of use (PEU) and three dependent variables: perceived privacy (PP), perceived fairness (PF) and perceived ethics (PE). 877 graduates have been selected through judgment sampling as participants who have completed graduation recently and are looking for jobs. Simple linear and multiple linear regressions have been applied to analyze the data. Afterwards, it was revealedthat all the two independent variables are positively correlated to all the three dependent variables. But in case of PE, the relationship is weak. Further, PA and PEU are positively related to overall perception (OP). The results might be proven important for those academicians want to further investigate in this relatively untapped area as well as for the HR practitioners to understand the perceptions of job seekers regarding social media recruitment.

Suggested Citation

  • Sajjad Hosain & Ping Liu, 2020. "The Impact of Social Media Recruitment on Job Candidates’ Perceptions: Evidence from Bangladeshi Fresh Graduates," Postmodern Openings, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 11(1), pages 20-41, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev3rl:v:11:y:2020:i:1:p:20-41
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/po/106
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://lumenpublishing.com/journals/index.php/po/article/view/2274
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/https://doi.org/10.18662/po/106?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Md Sajjad Hosain & Md Altab Hossin & Yin Xiaohua & Md Aktaruzzaman & Mohitul Ameen Ahmed Mustafi, 2020. "Social Networking Information and Pre-Employment Background Checks: The Mediating Role of Sustainable Organizational Reputation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-19, April.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Social media; Social networking site; Social media recruitment; Social media information; Candidates’ perception; Organization;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:lum:rev3rl:v:11:y:2020:i:1:p:20-41. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Antonio Sandu (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://lumenpublishing.com/journals/index.php/po/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.