...Onur Emre Purpose This article examines the phenomenon of job postings created without genuine hiring intent, commonly referred to as ghost ads. These postings have become a strategic tool for organizations in the digital recruitment era, particularly with the rise of platforms like LinkedIn...

... Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Anticipated chilly climate for women Scale development Gendered language Job ads Gender stereotypes Career development Recruitment Social identity threat theory Organisational climate perceptions have been...

...Benjamin Hopkins; David Dowell Purpose A substantial amount of previous literature has investigated recruitment and retention of workers in paid jobs in the for-profit sector. Additionally, some of this work has developed differentiated recruitment and retention strategies for different groups...

... not have been adequately representative of the target population. Practical implications – Organisations may benefit from these results by implementing and/or emphasising non-financial rewards as part of a total rewards package when they attempt to attract or recruit potential employees...

...Geraldine Rieucau Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the recruitment practices of the French and UK retail industry. It analyses the influence of specific business constraints, labour market institutions and employment patterns on recruitment practices. It devotes attention...

... networking sites has focussed on Facebook, a non-professional site. This is, from the knowledge, the first study that systematically examined the manner in which people present themselves on LinkedIn – the most popular professional site used by applicants and recruiters worldwide. Individuals...

.... Research limitations/implications – This research leads to discuss the relevance of the concept of Generation Y for recruitment. Additional research is needed to improve the external validity of this study which must be reproduced in other contexts and with different populations. Practical...

...Dr Emma Parry and Professor Stefan Strohmeier; Anna B. Holm Purpose – Up to now, there has been little research on the impact of the external environment on recruitment practices of organizations, and in part it lags behind practice. The purpose of this paper is to rectify this by studying recent...

...Mukta Kulkarni; Siddharth Nithyanand Purpose Past research has largely portrayed job choice as a relatively rational and goal‐directed behavior where applicants make decisions contingent on organizational recruitment activities, or evaluations of job and organizational attributes. Research now...

...Jenny K. Rodriguez; Lesley Mearns; Annalisa Lendaro; Christian Imdorf Purpose Referring to the sociology of conventions, the purpose of this paper is to examine how various conventions of work coordination and employee relations affect how recruiters in the domestic labour industry use ethnic...

...Andrew R. Timming Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the recruitment and selection procedures employed in the body art sector. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with the owners/managers of eight body art studios located across the USA and the UK...

... of reference to explain the role of educational certification in systems of social structuring. Correspondingly, qualifications may function as signals, screens or proxies. Qualitative evidence, drawing on 40 interviews with graduates, employers and educators gives insights on access requirements, recruitment...

... implications Growing the professional workforce in the Northern Territory is a prominent government policy objective. This study shows that different approaches to recruitment need to be taken with workers in different professions. Originality/value One of the weaknesses in existing academic literature...

...Maria Teresa Vieira Campos Proença; Eva Teresa Valente Dias de Oliveira Purpose This study aims to investigate decision‐making processes and to identify factors which influence managers in the selection of job applicants' CVs and how these factors differ from the firm's recruitment and selection...

..., uncertainty‐avoidance, in‐group collectivism, gender egalitarianism, and performance‐orientation. Examples from the literature are also used to strengthen the proposed hypotheses. Findings This research identifies staffing practices such as internal recruitment, personal references, succession planning...

...Orla Gough; Rod Hick Purpose The paper aims to examine the role of an occupational pension in employees' psychological contracts, the degree to which such pensions influence decisions relating to employee recruitment and retention, and attitudes of managerial employees to the recent Employment...

...” HR policies in place and had made some progress in achieving the quality standards, although many struggled to recruit and retain suitable staff. The consequences of these findings are discussed in relation to the literature on both recruitment and retention and HRM in the voluntary sector...

... profound understanding of professorial recruitment and selection procedures in relation to gender differences at Dutch universities. Design/methodology/approach This paper explores the recruitment of university professors as a gendered process and is mainly based on the analysis of selection committee...

... Recruitment Promotion Australia Until recently Australia's 38 universities have been criticised for maintaining male‐dominated management structures and for ignoring the potential of women as managers (Burton, 1997 ; Probert et al., 1998). In this way they share the same problems...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Recruitment Hispanics Human resource management Selection Individual perception United States of America Official estimates as of July 1, 2002, place the US Hispanic population at 38.8 million, making this group the largest minority...