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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods

University of Texas at El Paso

Employee recruitment

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Public Social Network Sites And Social Recruiting, Abby Peters Jan 2014

Public Social Network Sites And Social Recruiting, Abby Peters

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Social network sites (SNSs) are an increasingly popular form of social media used by individuals and organizations. As these platforms continue to transform the way people communicate with one another, they are simultaneously revolutionizing the way individuals interact with organizations. Part of this dramatic change is apparent in the processes by which organizations are recruiting employees and job seekers are pursuing employment. To investigate these phenomena, I employed the diffusion of innovations theory in a SNS context to examine the relationship between organizations' use of their corporate career website and their use of SNSs as recruiting sources. Subsequently, I used …