2 Employee recruitment and selection

What sort of workers does the firm want?

Fit between personal characteristics and technology, strategy and culture is crucial.

How to encourage the right people to apply?

Target the right audience, use employee referrals, offer compensation packages that the right candidates would select themselves and other would not select.

How to select the right people from the applicants?

Interviews, evaluations, probationary periods and other methods of screening.

How to promote people within an organization?

Tradeoff between external hiring vs. internal labor market in terms of flexibility and screening costs