Mobile Recruitment System in the Nigerian Civil Service Commission (A Case Study of Ogun State Civil Service Commission)

ABSTRACT

 Traditional recruitment procedures are replaced so as to overcome most of its attendant challenges such as time-consuming and tiresome nature of recruiting a larger number of applicants into Civil Service from different parts of Nigeria considering multifaceted nature of the nation. This research obliterate favouritism, nepotism and other corrupt means that were the usual practice in short listing prospective candidate for job, electronic recruitment system are enhanced with the availability of mobile platform that improve accessibility with emerging computing paradigm over the internet. Quarters system rules were used to determine numbers of candidate to be selected in a particular region in the Ogun State. The mobile recruitment application was implemented using online control panel platform where different application coding were integrated to interact with online PhpmyAdmin database. Its performance was tested using Ogun State as a pilot in the Federation and User Satisfaction were evaluated.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

APPROVAL

DECLARATION .ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iii

DEDICATION iv

ABBREVIATIONS v

TABLE OF CONTENTS vi

LIST OF TABLES ix

LIST OF FIGURES ix

ABSTRACT Xi

CHAPTER ONE 1

1.0 Introduction 1

1.1 Background I

1.2 Statement of the Problem 5

1.3 Main Objective 6

1.4 Specific objectives 6

1.5 Research question 7

1.6 Scope of the study 7

1.7 Significance of the study 7

1.8 Limitation of the study 8

CHAPTER TWO 9

LITERATURE REVIEW 9

2.0 Introduction 9

2.1 Recruitment operations 10

2.2 Scope of M-Recruiting Offerings 25

2.3 Why do we need to go mobile9 27

2.4 Mobile subscriber In Nigeria as of June 2016 27

2.5 Review of related works 28

2.6 Existing system 34

2.7 Conceptual Model 34

CHAPTER THREE 36

METHODOLOGY 36

3.0 Introduction 36

3.1 Project Methodology 36

3.2 Research design 37

3.3 Research Approach 39

3.4 Research Population 39

3.5 Sample Size 40

3.6 Data sources 40

3.7 Research Instrument 40

3.8 Validity and reliability of research instrument 41

3.9 Ethical considerations 41

CHAPTER FOUR 42

SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONSYSTEM DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, TESTING AND VALIDATION 41

4.0 INTRODUCTION 42

4.1 SYSTEM SPECIFICATION 42

4.2 System Design 46

4.3 SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION OF MOBILE RECRUITMENT SYSTEM 49

4.4 System Testing 57

CHAPTER FIVE 66

DISCUSSION CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 66

5.0 Introduction 66

5.1 Discussion 66

5.2 Conclusion 69

5.3 Recommendations 70

References 64

APPENDICES 78

APPENDIX I: TIME FRAME 78

APPENDIX II: BUDGET 79

APPENDIX III- ANDROID DEVELOPMENT CODE 80

APENDIX V: ANALYSIS OF USER -SATISFACTION OF MOBILE RECRUITMENT

APPLICATION QUESTIONNAIRE 90