The relationship between computer literacy and tendency for online job application / Norbaizura Kiprawi and Norfadilah Saidi

Computer literacy provided the entire academic community with the opportunity to develop skills in the use of computers. This is because now days the computer literacy skills was very important in the information age. Even applying for job, those skills should be possessed by the job seekers because it will make them much ore easier to seek and apply for job since everything was based on the internet. The study examines the relationship between computer literacy can help with tendency for online job application. A random sample of 150 final year students in UiTM and Unimas were given the questionnaires but we have collected only the best 100 sets of questionnaires to be analyzed. Besides that we also conducted interview with two administrative officers of the Federal SPA and State SPA in order to gain more information. We have found that, there is no relationship between the computer literacy skills possess by the respondents with their preference to apply for job through online. To conclude, even their level of computer literacy are at the low or beginning level, they are still prefer to apply job through online because for them, it is easier and faster than the manual form, which is consume so much time to reach the organization.