The legality of key word search as a personnel selection tool

Employee Relations

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 516-522

  Amin Mohamed, A ^a   Orife, John N ^a   Wibowo, Kustim ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Internet; Key indicators; Online retrieval; Recruitment; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986116825     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450210443285     Document Type: Article

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