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Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420759
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Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives
McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - 2020
What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a … within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to moderately correlated with non-incentivized measures in most treatments but are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322608
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What Does Job Applicants' Body Art Signal to Employers?
Baert, Stijn; Herregods, Jolien; Sterkens, Philippe - 2023
of hireability and rated personality, similar in terms of rated taste to collaborate but worse in terms of rated direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377214
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Do they find you on Facebook? : Facebook profile picture and hiring chances
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408193
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Whoever you want me to be: personality and incentives
McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2020
What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a … within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to moderately correlated with non-incentivized measures in most treatments but are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305395
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What does job applicants' body art signal to employers?
Baert, Stijn; Herregods, Jolien; Sterkens, Philippe - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014384081
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What does job applicants' body art signal to employers?
Baert, Stijn; Herregods, Jolien; Sterkens, Philippe - 2023
of hireability and rated personality, similar in terms of rated taste to collaborate but worse in terms of rated direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311989
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Whoever you want me to be : personality and incentives
McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443669
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Formalized employee search and labor demand
Hensel, Lukas; Tekleselassie, Tsegay Gebrekidan; Witte, Marc - 2021
Firms often use social networks to find workers, limiting the pool of potential applicants. We conduct a field experiment subsidizing firms' formal vacancy posting. The subsidies increase non-network employee search and shift vacancies towards high-skilled positions. Post-treatment, firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698102
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The value of hiring through employee referrals in developed countries : firms can benefit by hiring employee referred candidates; however, there are potential drawbacks that must b...
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2017
Companies frequently hire new employees based on referrals from existing employees, who often recommend friends or family members. There are numerous possible benefits from this, such as lower turnover, possibly higher productivity, lower recruiting costs, and beneficial commonalities related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665013