The Selection/Recruitment Interview: Core Processes and Contexts

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 119-142

  Dipboye, Robert L ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contexts; Core process

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046051965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164221.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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