4.1.5. Analyzing the E-Recruitment

Attracting the best candidates is a strategic task. E-recruitment has become the ultimate tool for attracting and retaining valuable candidates and it helps increase their trust in the organization's brand. Today, the e-recruitment is about using new social media, i.e., Facebook, LinkedIn, and other new e-recruitment solutions. The global e-recruitment industry recorded an annual growth of 7% in 2016 [79]. Data on e-recruitment is presented below (Table 5).


**Table 5.** Data on using the Internet to look for a job application (e-recruitment) (x4) [80].

Studies show that recruitment is carried out almost totally by using the Internet, but only some countries have increased values (Figure 5).

**Figure 5.** Graphic representation of e-recruitment by countries and by years.

In Romania, we observe that there are still lower percent (6 in 2015, 8 in 2017, and 5 in 2019) as compared with the average values for the EU28 (17 in 2015 and 17 in 2019), and for the analyzed group (values from 25 to 37 in 2019), indicating an important gap (5) as compared with the greatest value from the group (37), and also that H1 is again fulfilled.

### 4.1.6. Analyzing the E-Development

According to the data presented in the official EU statistics, Romania has values between 3 and 4 (from 2015 to 2019) as compared with the average of the EU28 (6 to 10 between 2015 and 2019) and the analyzed group between 12 and 21 (from 2015 to 2019) for e-development. The data on e-development was collected and divided by years, as shown in Table 6.

The graphic representation of e-development data is presented below (Figure 6).


**Table 6.** Data on using the Internet to do an online course (e-development) (x5) [81].

**Figure 6.** Graphic representation of e-development by countries and by years.

Romania (3) is much below the registered average value and the best-in-class group (21 the highest value), H1 being fulfilled, and showing a gap for the e-development variable between the analyzed countries. The global e-learning market was worth \$107 billion in 2015 and is predicted to reach a total market value of \$325 billion [82].
