Premium
Recruiters' Assessment and Use of Social Capital in Résumé Screening 1
Author(s) -
Nguyen Nhung T.,
Allen Charles L.,
Lynn Godkin R.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00083.x
Subject(s) - friendship , social capital , psychology , social psychology , context (archaeology) , capital (architecture) , selection (genetic algorithm) , human capital , personnel selection , management , sociology , economics , social science , paleontology , history , computer science , biology , economic growth , archaeology , artificial intelligence
An experiment was conducted with undergraduate business students to investigate how human resource (HR) recruiters use social capital conceptualized as friendship between applicants and the recruiter in screening résumés. Results showed that social capital influenced recruiters' assessment of applicants above and beyond human capital. In addition, the influence of friendship ties in applicant assessment was more prominent among female HR recruiters than among male recruiters. Implications for researchers and practitioners are discussed in the context of employee selection.