Online gaming to apply for jobs-the impact of self- and E-assessment on staff recruitment

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Laumer, Sven ^a   Von Stetten, Alexander ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; INTERNET; SURVEYS;

COST SAVINGS; E-RECRUITING; EMPIRICAL DATUM; GERMANY; ON-LINE APPLICATIONS; ON-LINE GAMES; ON-LINE GAMINGS; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED QUALITIES; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; RESPONSE RATES; SEM; STAFF RECRUITMENTS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TIME SAVINGS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 63349101462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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