The potential of the ePortfolio as a recruitment tool: from the perspective of HR Directors
In this paper, the authors explore the potential of the electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) as a recruitment tool, in particular whether Human Resources directors would be willing to use it during the recruitment and selection process. The ePortfolio presents, documents, reflects on, and fosters stude...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/113718 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/113718 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 37 37.091.6 378 331:37 331.108.3 37.013 ePortfolio Educational technology Higher education Employability Human resources Educación Enseñanza universitaria Trabajo Tecnología de la información (Ciencias de la Información) 58 Pedagogía 5802.04 Niveles y Temas de Educación 5306.02 Innovación Tecnológica 5307.10 Teoría y Modelos de Empleo 5311.04 Organización de Recursos Humanos |
| Sumario: | In this paper, the authors explore the potential of the electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) as a recruitment tool, in particular whether Human Resources directors would be willing to use it during the recruitment and selection process. The ePortfolio presents, documents, reflects on, and fosters students’ skills, credentials, certificates and diverse formal and informal experiences in a structured and well-organized manner. Because the ePortfolio is, by nature, flexible and adaptable, an ePortfolio developed with the help of professors over the course of a students' studies can easily be incorporated into professional networking platforms as a job search tool and showcase the skills required for a successful applicant. It is often said that the difference between what is taught in the academic world and the practical skills that are required by the business sector make it difficult for students to access the labor market. The ePortfolio may help to reconcile both worlds. In order to examine whether Human Resources directors are willing to use an ePortfolio as a recruitment tool, a survey was carried out among fifty-two Human Resources directors. The research findings reveal that an educational ePortfolio can count on significant approval in the business sector. This research study is relevant as it provides valuable information on this topic and it is the only one to date, conducted among HR directors in the context of Spanish-speaking countries. |
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