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Recruiting
and Selection
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Learning Objectives
1. Describe the relationship among planning, recruiting, and
selection.
2. Identify and discuss the basic sources for recruiting; discuss
realistic job previews and their role in effective recruiting.
3. Describe the steps in the selection process and identify and
summarize basic selection criteria that organizations use in hiring
new employees.
4. Discuss popular selection techniques that organizations use to
hire new employees.
5. Discuss the selection decision itself.
6. Describe reliability and validity and their importance in employee
selection.
7. Identify and summarize the basic legal issues in selection and
discuss the importance of evaluating recruiting and selection
activities.
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Recruiting
Recruiting is the
process of developing a
pool of qualified
applicants who are
interested in working for
the organization and
from which the
organization might
reasonably select the
best individual or
individuals to hire for
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Methods for External Recruiting
Techniques
for
Recruiting
College Electronic
placement
recruiting
offices
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Big 5 Personality Traits
Big 5 Personality Traits: These tend to be
more behavioral than cognitive or
emotional and are likely to be more
important for job performance than more
traditional personality traits:
1. Neuroticism
2. Extraversion
3. Openness to experience
4. Agreeableness
5. Conscientiousness
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Employment Applications
An employment
application asks
individuals for
various bits of
information
pertaining to their
personal
background.
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Employment Applications (con’t)
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Employment Tests
Employment tests are a device for measuring
the characteristics of an individual, such as
personality, intelligence, or aptitude.
Cognitive ability tests measure mental skills
whereby the applicant is not required to do anything
physical, only to demonstrate some type of
knowledge.
Psychomotor ability tests measure physical abilities
such as:
Strength
Eye-hand coordination
Mental dexterity
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Employment Tests (con’t)
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Personal Interviews
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Types of Interviews
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Legal and Effectiveness Issues in
Recruiting and Selection
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