Application Of Mobile Technology For Talent Management

Our External sales people use mobile information technology to keep up to date with emails and to produce quotes when out on the road.

Information Technology has grown in popularity and has advanced over the years. Information Technology is used in a wide number of different fields, one of which includes Human Resource Management. As of 2017, all the information we’ve ever needed or wanted to know can be searched and found online. With all of this information at our fingertips, we as a society have become more advanced. However, Information Technology has its opportunities and challenges. The opportunities of Information Technology include: having the access to various jobs portals and job boards, communication is made easier, and decision making is made easier. The challenges of Information

My proposed application would allow for an organization, such as a school, account for students, faculty, and visitors in a simpler, faster and more accurate way by leveraging today’s smartphone technology and organizations already existing personnel tracking systems.    Smartphones

| The ever advancing technology of mobile devices have affected almost every aspect of our everyday lives. Mobile devices have made it easier to communicate. With the way mobile devices right now, people are able to multitask and increase effectiveness of their business. Our devices can search, pay for merchandise and connect you to a business conference on the golf course. In today's business world, people are expected to do more in a lesser amount of time, making devices that can handle this type of behavior more of a necessity. Storage of information can be done on portable (flash) drives and taken with you anywhere you go, making it possible to have information at your fingertips without being tied to an office or home computer. You can send emails from your phone or a tablet making the virtual office a place of regular business. Social media has not only impacted our personal lives, but it has definitely invaded the work environment as well. With the use of Facebook

Mobile computing is important to Google, Apple, and Facebook, mainly because the widespread use of smartphones and other mobile platforms has increased tremendously. Pretty soon, it is believed that

The advantages of allowing employees to use their personal smartphones for work are that it would allow companies to enjoy all of the same benefits of a mobile workforce without spending their own money on unnecessary devices and mobile initiatives. Empowering employees to choose the best device to get their work done, including personally-owned laptops as well as smartphones and tablets, will allow employees to become more mobile and productive. The disadvantages of allowing employees to use their personal smartphones for work are that employees work with more than one type of mobile device and operating system. A significantly large amount of IT resources would have to be dedicated to managing and maintaining a large number of devices in an organization. This presents difficulties for companies to provide

In 2014, the company’s revenue has grown dramatically with the rate of 100% per year (BigChange, 2015). Consequently, with the remarkable development, the company’s vision is to become a market leader in the Mobile Resource Management industry in the UK. The firm is continuously trying to provide the best software called JobWatch in order to improve productivity and reduce operation costs to customers. In fact, BigChange offers all in one system in which customers can have access to vehicle tracking, workforce management application and the back office software (BigChange, 2015). Customers are able to manage daily operation from quotation to issuing invoices through a smartphone. Thus the performance’s quality can be ensured and controlled

Many different avenues exist that can be utilized in the recruitment process. While traditional methods of recruitment such as newspaper advertisements employee referral programs are still be used, many companies, including Fortune 500 companies, are moving towards more technologically advanced avenues such as career opportunity pages on the company website, online job boards, social media, etc. The way an organization presents itself using any of these avenues is essential to the recruitment process as it is the only opportunity for the organization to attract

Utilising social media for business has been a strategy of human resource management in hiring process. Internet and technology has revolutionised the way people live and also led employers to attract and screen potential candidates on social media, such as Linkedin and Facebook (Zamaria C, 2007). The features of online platform make social media become a common method of attracting applicants for human resource function. For instance, the speed and no geographical limits are distinctive features of online recruitment (CIPD, 2010). A survey conducted by the US Society for Human Resource Management found that the number of organisations that reported using social media as an HR recruiting tool had grown from 56 percent in 2011 to 84 percent in 2015 (SHRM, 2016). Some researches reported that the use of social media is an inevitable trend of hiring strategy in the age of Internet; therefore, employers could not ignore the

Over the past few years the number of mobile devices owned per person has grown, and will continue to grow, exponentially. With more and more people using a variety of different devices that suit their usability and productivity needs, businesses are trying to figure out how to adapt and remain competitive. The Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, phenomenon has crept up on many major business, and they are now finding out the hard way that security and integration procedures cannot be overlooked. The solutions for this issue are still in their infancy, but the two most prominent include Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM). Although these are considered Band-Aids for a larger issue, businesses, at this time, must adopt one of these two methods in order to provide adequate security for existing and new business information systems, while maintaining convenience and personalization for their employees.

In addition, the employment process requires effective communication in terms of the messages to post via advertisements. This is because potential candidates will be attracted by the content of the messages displayed through the adverts. In light of the current technological advancements such as the Internet and social networks, human resource managers would want to utilize such channels to reach many potential candidates across the globe (Lugonja, 2011: 2). This calls for flexibility and willingness to invest in technology where adequate efforts have not been made. However, a multidimensional approach would work better since not all people can access the Internet. In a nutshell, the process of selection and recruitment involves looking for and motivating prospective employees to apply for available job posts. Being a negative process, selection entails scrutinizing the qualifications of candidates that have applied in order to choose only the best applicants for various jobs (Sharma, Khurana, & Khurana, 2009: 17).

Back in early 2011, I was working for mobility unit of a major IT giant. I still remember how difficult it was to sell the idea of enterprise wide mobility solutions to even our internal stakeholders. The scenario has definitely undergone a radical shift in last couple of years. Not only are organizations embracing enterprise mobility but they are doing so on a priority basis. 67% of CIOs and IT professionals believe mobility will impact their businesses as much as or more than the internet did in the 1990s. [1] Mobile is no longer a device to just send emails on the go; it has evolved and grown into much more powerful tool to enhance productivity, streamline operations, and to keep employees connected with business and customers at all times. For example, consider a sales force executive- he can easily access all updated product related information on the field and he can file documents and take notes on this mobile or tablet, thus eliminating the need to do manual data entry after sales.

Mobile computing is technology that has enabled users to obtain internet services while being in a state of constant motion. Conventionally, internet could only be accessed only via Ethernet cable and users had to sit on one place in order to access internet. In this way, there existed no concept of taking work to a trip or connecting to world anytime. With the invention of mobile computing, users can take their work in their hands. One can now get internet service anywhere needed.

The mobile Internet is growing, fueled by increasing invasions of smartphone and better networks. Here the question arise that what is the smartphone? The smartphone is a cellular phone that operates many of the roles of a computer, holding Internet access, a touchscreen interface, and a various operating system that enables downloaded applications to run. In this modern society, with smartphones, tablets and cloud computing, everything is moving around quickly. The growing abilities of mobile phones are positioning them as the technology of choice, replacing PCs, for many users. As such, the use of these devices must be considered as a vital learning device available to higher education. According to Lacohee, Wakeford, & Pearson, 2003, in the initial rise of mobile technology advancement, cell phones were exclusive devices originally used by middle and upper-class people. Smartphones has the facilities to transmit and receive calls and create and accept text messages, as another digital portable gadgets like personal digital assistants (PDAs), such as an event list, Bluetooth, music player, video games, GPS, digital camera and video camera and can operate a variety of third-party software elements known as "apps".

From a large and bulky mainframe that was the size of a room to a mobile phone that can fit inside your pocket, technology has progressed by leaps and bounds in the last 50 years. Operating Systems have been the cornerstone in the evolution of “computers” and have adapted to their respective user communities [1] .The advent of smartphones as we know them today begin arguably with the introduction of iPhone in 2007. We have come a long way since then. The major mobile operating systems that dominate the market today are