Effect of E-Recruitment Practices on the Quality of Personnel Procurement in National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Kaduna Headquarters

The study focuses on assessing the effect of e-recruitment practices on the quality personnel procurement at National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). It is apparent that traditional method of recruitment in public institutions has been marred and influenced by opacity, inequality, lopsidedness and political patronage. Therefore, the broad objective of this study assessed the effect of e-recruitment in procuring talented personnel under the miasma of transparency, fairness and equity, the study adopts mixed method research design, combining quantitative and qualitative design, and equally utilizes primary and secondary data for sourcing data, entailing questionnaire using simple random sampling technique and interview using purposive technique. 157 sample size was used, and multiple leaner regression analysis was adopted for data analysis, SPSS software 27 edition was also utilized. The study finds that e-recruitment has a positive strong relationship with securing competent personnel at NIMC with R- value 0.728 and P – value level at 0.001 which is lower to the significance level (0.05). The study recommends that, the management of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) should sticks on e-recruitment practice in sourcing the best and competent employees through internet and also to provide adequate retention strategies, in order to motivate their workforce to remain in the service position of their organization without thinking of quitting, this is the only mechanism will guarantees it is sustainability, effectiveness in this turbulent situation of rampant issue of brain drain. Keywords: E-recruitment, transparency, personnel, fairness.