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Revealing The Screening: Organisational Factors Influencing The Recruitment Of Immigrant Professionals, Shamika Almeida, Mario Fernando, Alison Sheridan
Revealing The Screening: Organisational Factors Influencing The Recruitment Of Immigrant Professionals, Shamika Almeida, Mario Fernando, Alison Sheridan
Shamika Almeida
Little attention has been paid to factors that influence employers in their recruitment behaviour, especially as it affects immigrants. In order to address this gap in the literature, a case study of regional Australian employers is used to examine how organisation-based factors influence the employer screening and recruitment of immigrant professionals. The findings indicate that employers are not primarily driven by a human capital lens during the recruitment process. Rather they seem to be influenced by the place and specificity of the process. Some of the key factors which can either favourably or unfavourably influence employers include the organisational size, …