Beyond Pushing Paper: Human Resource Management and New Media

As a human resources (HR) major, I would like to research how new media has made an impact on the area of HR management, how HR has benefitted from these new technologies, and new emerging trends between HR and new media in the near future. The three areas of new media I would like to focus on in connection with HR are: social networking/media, online video conferencing/live streaming, and existing business communication platforms. As active undergraduate students, it can be assumed that most have been through one or more stages within a business's recruitment pipeline. It is a known fact that social media plays a decisive part in our modern era for recruiters/hiring managers, and is an extremely useful new media product to aid in informing web users about new job openings as well. This research paper will go beyond what is known to the average public, and will dive deeper into real-life examples of the positives and negatives of the new age technologies mentioned alongside human resources.