Game-thinking within social media to recruit and select job candidates

Social Media in Employee Selection and Recruitment: Theory, Practice, and Current Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 103-124

  Collmus, Andrew B ^a   Armstrong, Michael B ^a   Landers, Richard N ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Brand equity; Gamification; Organizational attraction; Person organization fit; Recruitment; Selection; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991092965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29989-1_6     Document Type: Chapter

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