Corporate E-cruiting: The construction of work in fortune 500 recruiting Web sites

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-71

  Young, Jun ^a,b   Foot, Kirsten ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c WebArchivistorg Research Group

^d MIT Press

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; CONDITION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CORPORATES; IDEALISATION; JOB-OPENINGS; RANDOM SAMPLE; WEB-SITES; WORKERS';

WEBSITES;

EID: 27744469032     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.tb00303.x     Document Type: Article

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