Factors Influencing the Adoption of the World Wide Web for Job-Seeking in Bangladesh

Ihsan Saif, Kamelia Chaichi

Abstract


This study intends to identify factors that may influence the adoption of WWW (7 usage) for job seeking in Bangladesh Although Bangladesh has a growing number of Internet users, it is still lagging behind other countries in the context of e-recruitment. The three factors–Trust, performance expectancy and facilitating conditions were selected from the available literature. A survey was conducted and questionnaire that includes 25 questions was distributed randomly to a sample of 81 participants. The collected data was analysed by using SPSS software. The result indicates one hypothesis has been accepted and facilitates condition showed significant impact on the Internet usage for job seeking among Bangladeshi people.

Keywords


internet; e-recruitment; job seeking

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