Recruitment and Job Choice

Although job choice is often considered synonymous with job offer acceptance, this chapter argues that job choice should be reconceptualized as the entirety of the behavioral choices an applicant makes during recruitment. Specifically, applicants are faced with the decisions to apply to organizations, to maintain their applicant status or withdraw from the recruitment process, and ultimately to accept or reject offers of employment. The primary goals of this chapter are to review job choice theory and extant research, and to present a process model articulating the goals, reactions, and decisions involved in applicant job choice