Employee Recruitment: Current Knowledge and Suggestions for Future Research

The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Assessment and Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Breaugh, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Applicant attraction; College recruiting; Employee recruitment; Employee referral; Recruiters; Recruitment methods; Social networking; Web site

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066666885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199732579.013.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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