Employee Recruitment: Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Research

International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008

Volumn 23, Issue , 2008, Pages 45-82

  Breaugh, James A ^a   Macan, Therese H ^a   Grambow, Dana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attracting applicant attention; Employee recruitment; Evaluating recruitment efforts; Person job organization fit; Post hire outcomes; Recruitment message and realism focused research; Recruitment objectives; Recruitment strategy and recruitment objectives; Recruitment strategy development; Web sites recruitment mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954199909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773277.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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