Learning Objectives 
      1.    Describe the relationship among planning, recruiting, and 
            selection.
      2.    Identify and discuss the basic sources for recruiting; discuss 
            realistic job previews and their role in effective recruiting.
      3.    Describe the steps in the selection process and identify and 
            summarize basic selection criteria that organizations use in hiring 
            new employees.
      4.    Discuss popular selection techniques that organizations use to 
            hire new employees.
      5.    Discuss the selection decision itself.
      6.    Describe reliability and validity and their importance in employee 
            selection.
      7.    Identify and summarize the basic legal issues in selection and 
            discuss the importance of evaluating recruiting and selection 
            activities.
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     Recruiting
                                      Recruiting is the 
                                         process of developing a 
                                         pool of qualified 
                                         applicants who are 
                                         interested in working for 
                                         the organization and 
                                         from which the 
                                         organization might 
                                         reasonably select the 
                                         best individual or 
                                         individuals to hire for 
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      Methods for External Recruiting 
           Word of                                           Employment agencies
                                  Advertisements             •
            mouth                                            Private
                                                             •
                                                             Public
                                                             •
                                                             Executive search 
                                                             firms/headhunters
                                     Techniques
                                          for 
                                      Recruiting
         College                                                    Electronic 
       placement                                                     recruiting
          offices
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     Big 5 Personality Traits
      Big 5 Personality Traits: These tend to be 
          more behavioral than cognitive or 
          emotional and are likely to be more 
          important for job performance than more 
          traditional personality traits:
        1.  Neuroticism
        2.  Extraversion
        3.  Openness to experience
        4.  Agreeableness
        5.  Conscientiousness 
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     Employment Applications
     An employment 
        application asks 
        individuals for 
        various bits of 
        information 
        pertaining to their 
        personal 
        background.
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