The Role of Social Networking Websites

Question: What is the Role of Social Networking Websites on Finding a Suitable Job and Employment Interviews. Answer: Executive summary: Social media is one of the major platforms for identifying the appropriate job in an effective manner. In the modern age, social media networking facilitates the job seekers for finding a job easily. A huge number of social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ allow adequate opportunity to the employees for learning about the new and existing originations. Through the engagement of employing online portals, job seekers easily enhance the opportunity of obtaining a proper job in the society. On the other hand, social networking sites allow the new graduates for analyzing appropriate job sector. By analyzing the article by Sara et al. (1990), it can be assessed that job selection is an important step for securing the future in an effective manner. As per the article, it can be identified that interview transcript facilitates to reveal the recruitment practices that plays an important role in job seekers decisions. On the other hand, Nikolaou (2014) has discussed in his article that social networking websites (SNWs) have been contributing most job seekers and human resource professionals to identify the proper jobs or candidates respectively. On the contrary, the prime reason for increasing the popularity of social networking sites is the recent unemployment in the society. However, job seekers often fail to identify the appropriate job due to fake information available on the job portals. Hence, the security issue is an important aspect of evaluating the right profession. Chi and Gursoy (2009) have argued that in the modern age, acquiring a good academic degree is hardly enough for finding a job in a good company after graduation. The enhancement of educational business has created difficulties for the freshers to acquire a good job in the society. Hence, the researcher has highlighted the importance of social media platform for acquiring a right profession in the society. Introduction: The particular research paper allows the researcher to identify the benefits of the social networking sites in job searching. With the involvement of detailed analysis, the researcher has evaluated the key development areas in an effective manner. As argued by Chi and Gursoy (2009), social media platform facilitates new graduates to find appropriate professions without any difficulties. Moreover, it is a supportive platform to students and existing employees for career research. By investigating the current market, it can be assessed that less than 40% of graduates consider marketing themselves to recruits online (Barnichon 2010). It identifies the fact that online job portal increasing its popularity in recent years. The beneficial aspect of this particular research is that it will facilitate the fresher and exist employees to understand the importance of social media network for analyzing the current job market in an effective manner. Moreover, the researcher has selected the parti cular topic in order to highlight the strengths and weakness of social media network to identify different professions (Kuhn and Mansour 2014). By analyzing the article by Sara et al. (1990), it can be assessed that the job choice is an important aspect for the students and employees as it facilitates them to build futures in an appropriate manner. Hence, another beneficial aspect of the particular research topic is that it highlights the importance of job selection for new graduates. Macan (2009) has discussed that social networking media and other online job search engine have provided enough support to the human resources management in orders identify true talent. The particular research facilitates both job seekers and the job recruitment organisations to identify clients in an appropriate manner. Body: Sara et al. (1990) have discussed that job choices play an important role for the job applicants. It facilitates to enhance the performance of the employees in the organization. With the engagement of job identification, the employees easily choose the appropriate profession. On the contrary, research findings say that recruiters have little effects on job choices after investigating the job characteristics in an effective manner (Lin 2010). Moreover, the recruiters obtain adequate opportunities for enhancing the interview methodology by investigating different online platforms. By analyzing the article by Sara et al. (1990), it can be assessed that role of social networking sites facilities the human resource management for enhancing the recruitment practice in an effective manner. However, it contradicts with the research question as the research question indicates the role of social networking websites for finding a suitable job or employment interviews (Mang 2012). This particula r article focuses on the importance of job choices for job seekers. Sara et al. (1990) have discussed the structures and the open-ended interview conducted at two points in the job search process. Authors have focused on evaluating the interview process for the employees. Hence, the particular research article does not ensure the investigation on the importance of social networking sites for evaluating jobs and employment interviews. Chi and Gursoy (2009) have discussed the development of the hospitality programs including job assistances to the graduate students. The particular article has investigated the process of securing jobs in an effective manner. As per the article, it can be identified that hospitality management programs, faculty, and students always seek opportunity for improving the job placement rate for their graduate students. The recruitment industry has been facing difficulties in arranging adequate jobs opportunities for the graduate students and existing employees due to the enhancement of education business in the society (Hargittai and Litt 2013). The particular article has identified the biggest challenges in the hospitality programs including the determination of clear objectives, which meets the changing needs of the global industry. Chi and Gursoy (2009) has discussed that the analysis of hospitality and tourism programs has been a significant area for conducting research in recent years . Previously, many studies have been executed on the hospitality curriculum and the requirement to integrate operational and managerial skills for career success (Krueger and Mueller 2010). The particular article has suggested that operational issues are majorly discussed area for investigating the hospitality curriculum. The author has identified the importance of interpersonal relations and managerial skills for obtaining the success in the industry (Bren i  and Norris 2010). Therefore, the particular research article indicates the details analysis on the process of securing jobs for the graduates. Moreover, the author has provided a brief literature review on the career development programme in the hospitality industry. Chi and Gursoy (2009) have discussed two factors for obtaining the career and placement services. These factors include the reputation of the program, and the equality of students educational prospectus taught in the tourism and hospitality management (Beard et al. 2012). Hence, the particular research topic identifies the job opportunities in both hospitality and tourism industry. This article is related to the research questions as it focuses on the job securing process for graduates. However, it does not focus on the role of social networking websites for providing better job opportunities to the job seekers in the society. On the other hand, the social networking websites also suggest the platforms for facilitating graduate students to find jobs as per their career objectives (McKeown and Lindorff 2011). Hence, it contributes in securing their jobs in an effective manner. Macan (2009) has provided a brief review of the human resource management and its impact on the job industry. By analysing this particular article, it can be assessed that employment interviews indicate popular technique for recruiting an appropriate candidate in the business. Through the engagement of employing proper recruitment method, the human resource management facilitates the organisation to enhance its productivity in an effective manner (Sullivan 2010). Moreover, the author has identified the fair recruiting method employed in the organisation in order to enhance the talent crisis in the business. Macan (2009) have argued that employment interview has been a popular topic among investigators for almost 100 years. By analysing the article, the researcher has evaluated several meta-analyses that facilitate to reveal the structured interview for enhancing the level of validity. In this particular interview process, the author has evaluated the factors moderating the reliabilit y and validity of interviewer judgement (Baker and Fradkin 2011). The article says that structured interviews are responsible for providing error-free outcomes. Moreover, the structured interview facilitates the human resource management to enhance the reliability and validity of the interview evaluations (Gautier, Teulings and Van Vuuren 2010). The author has explained the differentiations between structured and unstructured interview. Structured interview rating is more reliable than the unstructured interview process, as it often fails to show the higher validity of interview evaluations. Macan (2009) have investigated the structured interviews including the definition of a structured interview, components of the interview, and the barriers of a structured interview. In summary, the particular article by Macan (2009) has provided information regarding the function of potential moderators and the impact of greater interview structure on improving the validity and reliability of in terviewer judgement. Moreover, the particular article identifies the factors and characteristics of the applicant. Through engagement of investigating several factors of applicants, Macan (2009) has identified the applicants characteristics in an effective manner. Moreover, Macan (2009) has investigated the demographic characteristics of applicants including genders and race, age, physical disabilities, overweight applicants, and pregnant applicants. In this context, the author has identified the role of management behaviour. Several training modules have been suggested by the author in order to improve the interview performance in an effective manner. It can be assessed that the particular article contradicts with the main research question of the topic as the research question focuses on the role of social networking websites in evaluating jobs and employment interviews. On the other hand, the entire article has described the process of structured interview, whereas the current re search question indicates the impact of social networking websites on the job industry. However, the particular article is correlated with the research question, as the interview process is a post process of job evaluation. Both the employment interviews and job evaluation through online job portal indicate the social interaction (Caliendo, Schmidl and Uhlendorff 2011). Hence, it can be assessed that the article by Macan (2009) is related to the research question. Nikolaou (2014) has discussed the importance of social networking websites in job search and employee recruitment. As per the article, social networking websites are considered as an important platform for students and other job seekers for identifying appropriate career opportunity. Nowadays, most organisations utilize social networking websites for diminishing the talent crisis (Garg and Telang 2011). Job seekers and human resource professionals use social networking websites in order to evaluate the clients as their requirements. Nikolaou (2014) has discussed the effectiveness of social networking sites as it facilitates providing the updated information to the students and job-recruiting consultants. However, in the recent times, job industry has been facing huge challenges to arrange adequate places for students and job seekers as the continuous growth of the educational industry do not allow maintaining the job equality in the society (Hall and Krueger 2012). The particular art icle describes the employees screening and recruitment process for engaging the enhanced talent in the business. Through engagement of employing the social networking websites, job seekers obtain the opportunity for investigating the current market statistics in an effective manner. However, the particular process has some drawbacks including the risk of data reliability. Sometimes, the graduates and other jobseekers unable to evaluate the proper job, as the websites may contain invalid information. By analysing the article by Nikolaou (2014), it can be assessed that the drawbacks of online job portals create difficulties for job seekers and human resource management for identifying the proper participants. Another issue of online recruitment is that the online job portal often avoids updating their database on the regular basis (Swider, Boswell and Zimmerman 2011). Consequently, the job seekers could not obtain the interview information timely. Hence, it is a risk factor for the so cial networking sites. Hence, it can be identified that the particular article by Nikolaou (2014) is related to the research question about the role of social networking websites for evaluating jobs in an effective manner. On the other hand, the article provides the brief discussion on the positive and the negative impact of the social networking websites for finding jobs related information. Nikolaou (2014) has investigated the research topic through employing several tools and techniques. In the methodology section, the author has provided enough discussion on the process of analysing the research topic in an effective manner. Hence, it can be assessed that the article by Nikolaou (2014) is the most relevant article with the research question. The particular article provides relevant discussion on the role of social networking websites in facilitating job seekers to identify the proper professions that can indeed contribute to secure their future. However, the article by Sara et al (1990) has provided brief discussion on the importance of recruitment in job choice, which is correlated with the research question. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the social media is one of the major platform for enhancing the job search in an effective manner. In this context, the researcher has provided brief discussion on the impact of the social media platform on searching jobs. The researcher has investigated the four articles and discussed them in a detailed approach. The first article by Chi and Gursoy (2009) suggested the discussion on the social media platform and its impact on the graduate student. On the other hand, the article by Sara et al. (1990) highlights the job choice for students. Macan (2009) has discussed the role of human resource management and its impact on the job industry. The article by Nikolaou (2014) has indicated the impact of the social networking websites on the job search. There are some gaps in each article. For example, the first article by Chi and Gursoy (2009) indicates the impact of social media on the graduate students only. Hence, it is unable to discuss the overall perspectives. On the other hand, the article by Sara et al. (1990) does not focus on the social media platform and its impact, as it indicates the job choice process for the students. Moreover, the article by Macan (2009) indicates the work execution for the human resource management and not on the students and the job seekers. Consequently, it does not meet the criteria. Finally, the article by Nikolaou (2014) is relevant to the research question, as the research question indicates the topic about social networking platform and its impacts on the students and the job seekers in the society. Qualitative research process may be the best-fit solution for the particular research topic. Through the engagement of employing the qualitative research process, the researcher could fill the research gap in an effective manner. In this context, the main research gap is that the data reliability. Hence, the qualitative research process facilitates the researcher to investigate the topic in detailed manner for filling up that gap. Qualitative research method indicates the detailed discussion on the research topic. The qualitative analysis includes the document analysis, interviews, and observations and exist interviews. With the involvement of qualitative research methods, the researcher can easily achieve the aims and objective of the research topic. It is based on the perception, words and feelings of the participants. Qualitative method is often considered as the process of providing reliable data about the real situations. Hence, the qualitative process contributes the researcher to evaluate the major issues of the research questions. It can diminish the gap of the research in an effective manner. Secondary research questions allow the researcher to identify the issues of the research topic based on the current market analysis. There are some beneficial aspects of the secondary questions including the ease of access, low cost to obtain, better clarification of the research question. Moreover, it allows the participants to investigate the research questions in an effective manner. Hence, it clearly indicates that the secondary research questions would be the best possible solution for analyzing the research question in a detailed approach. On the other hand, the secondary research questions provide the in-depth analysis on the research topic. These in-depth analyses contribute the researcher to fill the research gap in an appropriate manner. In this context, the semi-structured questions facilitate the researcher to obtain positive outcome of the research. Hence, the semi-structured interview contributes in accumulating the detailed information about the research questions. The following semi-structured questions could be employed to obtain resolution of that secondary research questions. What are the impacts of social networking websites on finding a suitable job and employment interviews? What are the challenges in evaluating a suitable job on the social networking websites? 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