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Recruiting manual workers in high unemployment: an employer's experience
Author(s) -
Catt Hilton
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1984.tb00472.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , labour economics , selection (genetic algorithm) , business , economics , public relations , political science , economic growth , computer science , artificial intelligence
This article, written by a practitioner in the engineering industry, describes and reflects upon an employer's response in terms of recruitment and selection practices to the ‘landslide’ in job applications arising from the transition from full employment to the high and persisting unemployment of the 1980s. The introduction has been written by the Editor.