Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Recruitment Process and its Sentiment Analysis

Abstract

Covid-19 Pandemic has affected the entire human kind in a devastating way and the effects it has caused to different sectors of life are not yet gauged. In this research paper we are investigating the effects the pandemic has had on the recruitment process in the campuses and on students and employers. The various perspectives of the recruitment process and the changes the students and the trainers had to make in the process are considered here. The various stakeholders of the process like the human resource (HR) managers, placement officers, students undergoing placements and students who are recently placed are considered here to get a 360-degree perspective of the same. A sentiment analysis of the data procured is performed to categorize the opinions into “Positive”, “Negative” and “Neutral” from the different stakeholders. We are using the rule based approach here to find the polarity of the sentences based on their scores. The study has disclosed the apprehensions of all the stakeholders regarding the shift from offline to online mode of recruitment and also training.