I can not imagine myself not having any internet access. I can remember the difficulty of turning every pages of huge, heavy and thick encyclopedias for research assignments, travelling more than one hour just to purchase our plane tickets, to manually cut pages of my magazines just to get the most updated images for a project and all other convenience that I get to enjoy now because of internet access.
Are internet tools essential in the acceptance of an applicant???
Knowledge on internet tools should not be considered as essential for employment, compared to those qualifications on specific degree holders. Any person who are bachelors degree holder, those who have gone through vocational courses, or those who went to college are the kind of people who will be able to learn the functions of internet tools in one day. I learned social media and use of internet tools without formal training, without a professor, and I do not need to familiarize the terms for me to be able to undetstand how the system works. The company can hire such person and train him instead. My answer ould be different if the use of the internet tools is the type of job that you will be working with.
I have worked for a call center. Most programs used in the account that you will be working with deals with internet tools so it is very important that yoou learn it. There are some hired applicants who barely understands the term computer, internet access or even the world wide web but these facts wete not used to deny them of employment. I now understand that understanding and learning internet tools is not considered as important than reading comprehension, english proficiency, analysis and etc. That is why it is not an essential factor to hire Applicants.
Can companies use social media or internet tools to determining the most suitable applicants?
Definitely. There are thousands of jobhunters all over the world who have profited from this kind of method. There are two types of jobhunters. First is a jobhunter Hired by the company to post the vacancy of the company and are tasked to look for people suited in their qualifications. The othwr type of jobhunter is the kind of person who were hired by the applicant to look for a job or company that are able to to accept the kind of salary that he demands.
If jobhunters interview each and every applicant they will end up having one client in a month or worse in a year. with the use of internet tools jobhunters will have an easy time filtering the 10 most qualified applicants and narrows it down until they find the best there is that they can introduce to the company. If these option is available for them then they are free to use it that would make their job easier for them.
