Using the Internet to Attract and Evaluate Job Candidates

2012 ◽  
pp. 537-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Ross ◽  
Ross Slovensky
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Third Party ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Multiplayer Online Games ◽  
Social Networking Websites ◽  
Job Candidates ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Use Of Internet

The development of the Internet affords new opportunities for organizations as they add talent to their workforce. Employers are using third-party job placement websites (e.g., Monster.com), virtual job fairs, social networking websites, and even massively multiplayer online games such as Second Life to recruit job candidates. Organizations are also using their own websites to both attract and to evaluate new applicants. Accompanying these trends is the use of Internet-based testing for evaluating job candidates. Such testing varies based on whether it is proctored or unproctored and whether it incorporates dynamic computer adaptive testing. Finally, many firms are using individual candidate’s social networking websites (e.g., Facebook) as a background screening tool for evaluating job candidates. These trends are described and research questions identified.

Human Resource Recruiting and Selection Using Cellphone Apps

2015 ◽  
pp. 184-203
Author(s):  
William Ross ◽  
Evan Newman ◽  
Jeng-Chung V. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multiplayer Online Games ◽  
Job Candidates ◽  
Mobile Phone Applications ◽  
Use Of Internet

The development of Internet-enabled mobile phone applications (apps) affords new opportunities for organizations as they seek to add talent to their workforces. Employers are increasingly reliant on third-party job placement websites (e.g., Monster.com), virtual job fairs, Social Networking Websites, and even massively multiplayer online games such as Second Life to recruit job candidates. Organizations are also utilizing their own websites and apps to both attract and evaluate new applicants. Accompanying these trends is the use of Internet-based smartphone testing for evaluating job candidates, as well as the use of mobile videoconferencing to conduct interviews. This chapter describes such trends, and identifies key questions for future research.

scholarly journals An overview of internet use among professionals of Moradabad: a critical appraisal

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Neha Priya ◽  
Samreen Khan ◽  
Sachin Lal
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Use Of Internet

Background: Internet is a boon and has certainly helped to bring the world closer. It has been a great medium for students to communicate and get information by transforming the academic landscape. However the excessive and undisciplined use of internet by individuals especially in the last decade, has led to the emergence of the concept of internet addiction. Therefore, a cross sectional study has been conducted to investigate the use of internet facility among undergraduate students from Teerthankar Mahaveer University using a validated questionnaire. There were about 42 million active internet users in urban India in 2008 when compared to 5 million in 2000. India now has the world’s third-largest national digital population, with approximately, 159 million Internet users in 2014, which is projected to reach 314 million by 2017 (IMRB 2014). The aim was to study prevalence and pattern of internet usage among undergraduate students in Moradabad. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among medical students (n=382) belonging to all the professionals of medical college, to assess the pattern of internet usage. A semi-structured proforma along with Young’s internet addiction scale was used. Results: Of the 382 adolescents who took part in the study, 150 (39.27%) were female and 232 (60.73%) were males. Their mean age was 16.20 years. Using Young’s original criteria, 22 (5.76%) were found to be addicts, 230 (60.21%) were moderately addicted, 45 (11.78%) were average users while in 85 (22.25%) of student’s internet use was less than average. Most of internet use was for social networking 183(47.9%), downloading media files 125 (32.7%), online gaming 45 (11.8%), academic purposes 10 (2.6%) and others 19 (5%). About 275 (72%) of the students were using smart phones to access the internet. Conclusions: Most of the internet usage was for the purpose of social networking (Facebook, Whats App, Mails, etc). Availability of high speed free wi-fi internet on mobile phones as well as more reliance on virtual friendship than real may be the reason for spending more time on social network websites. 

Using I-D maps to Represent the Adoption of Internet Applications by Local Cricket Clubs

2011 ◽  
pp. 80-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Bingley ◽  
Steven Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Decision Process ◽  
Third Party ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Visual Aid ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Online Statistics ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter describes the development of a visual aid to depict the manner in which Internet applications are being diffused through local sporting associations. Rogers’ (2003) Innovation-Decision process stages, specifically the knowledge, persuasion, adoption and confirmation stages, are used as the theoretical basis for the aid. The chapter discusses the Innovation-Decision process as an important component of Rogers’ (2003) Innovation Diffusion approach. It then outlines the particular problem at hand, determining how best to represent different sporting (cricket) associations and their adoption and use of Internet applications across the innovation-decision process stages. Different data visualisation approaches to representing the data (such as line graphs and bar charts) are discussed, with the introduction of an aid (labelled I-D maps) used to represent the adoption of different Internet applications by cricket associations in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. The Internet applications considered are email, club websites, association and/or third party websites and the use of the Internet to record online statistics. The use of I-D maps provides instant interpretation of the different levels of adoption of Internet applications by different cricket associations.

The Use of Internet by Diasporic Communities for Political Mobilization

2012 ◽  
pp. 281-293
Author(s):  
Maricarmen Sanchez ◽  
Sukumar Ganapati
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Diasporic Community ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Independent Country ◽  
Diasporic Communities

This chapter analyzes how the Internet enables social and political mobilization of diasporic communities. Two diasporic communities—the Eritreans and the Iranians—form the empirical basis. The Eritrean diasporic community has used the Internet in their fight against Ethiopia and in their efforts to establish Eritrea as an independent country. The Iranian diasporic community used social networking, blogging, and other methods to politically mobilize amongst themselves in the host society and to mobilize their fellow countrymen in their homeland in the recent 2009 elections. The case studies illustrate how the Internet enables political mobilization that transcends time and space. Yet, the success of political mobilization depends on the diaspora’s relationship with the homeland’s government, their ability to create linkages, and their power relations.

scholarly journals Think before you post... Your future employer may be watching

2014 ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Elliott Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Swimming Pool ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Footprint ◽  
Job Candidates ◽  
Purdue University

The explosion of social networking sites in recent years has given many Kim Kardashian wannabes an opportunity to display and glamorise their supposed activities and achievements. However, it has also unwittingly given employers an opportunity to pry into the personal (and at times very personal) affairs of their prospective employees through the practice of cyber-vetting. Social media users should take note. They should think very carefully before they post, tweet or upload a photograph as their future employer may be watching and to paraphrase US Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, removing something from the Internet is about as easy as removing urine from a swimming pool! Dr Brenda Berkelaar of Purdue University, who completed a PhD on cyber-vetting, described the practice as: “when organizations use information from search engines or social networking communities to evaluate job candidates.” In its simplest form, cyber-vetting is the examination by employers of the digital footprint ...

Games for Social Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 866-881
Author(s):  
Paul Keating
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Online Games ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Augusto Boal ◽  
Multiplayer Online Games ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Gaming Environment ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Building on the use of the internet and social media as sites for activism, this paper highlights the emergence of political activism and collective protest in the online gaming environment. Referencing social movement theory and the rapidly evolving capacity of multiplayer online games to facilitate the development of strong group identities and real-time, real-world collaboration, the paper explores the potential of such games to create a space and a mechanism for enabling the emergence of movements for social change. Highlighting the growing number of social activist games designers, building values of equality and social justice into their gameplay, the paper draws an epistemological link between the work of these “conscientious designers” and the process of Conscientization within youth and community work inspired by the critical analysis of political activists such as Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal.

Regulating Social Networking: Lessons from Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Beardwood ◽  
Gabriel Stern
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Social Networking Services ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
On Line ◽  
Application Developers

AbstractIn recent years, an increasing numbers of internet users have become regular users of on-line social networking services such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Second Life. These services provide a social space for users to connect with friends, network with business contacts and create “virtual” alter egos. Regulators have begun to take a particular interest in the privacy practices of social networking services. One of the most significant initiatives in this respect was recently undertaken by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, in the form of a 113 page report on its investigation and critique of Facebook’s privacy policies and practices.Notably, the investigation addressed a range of the privacy concerns cited above: (i) collection and use of personal information by third-party application developers; (ii) account deactivation and deletion; (iii) accounts of deceased users; and (iv) the collection of personal information of non-users. This report is worthy of closer examination for a number of reasons. First, it provides useful lessons to both users and providers of social networking services, in identifying and suggesting solutions to certain privacy risk areas. This report also illustrates the willingness of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate, and publicly report on, the privacy practices of non-Canadian organizations. Finally, this report provides some significant direction on how overtly the purposes for personal information should be identified to each subject individual.

scholarly journals Death and the virtual: memorialization on social networking websites

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Curtis
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Networking Websites ◽  
Memorial Sites ◽  
New Media Technologies

"The shift towards online communication has impacted many aspects of our lives, in that we increasingly use the internet in ways that have a lasting impact on our lived experience. One of the ways this impact occurs is through the virtual manifestation of phenomena related to death. Customs related to death - such as funerals and memorials - are being remediated on the internet in ways that are varied and complex. Remediation, a term introduced by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, involves the reinvention of previous forms of media using new media technologies.1 In this way, every form of media is understood to be a new version of a form of media that already existed. Looking at sites of memorialization of all kinds through the framework of remediation illuminates the ways that the manifestation of issues related to death and memorialization on the internet has and will continue to both complicate and enhance the ways these sites are experienced and conceptualized by those that visit them. While traditional physical memorial sites have always existed - and will continue to exist - sites of remembrance that appear on the internet are emerging as a complementary medium of memorialization"--From the Introduction.

scholarly journals Death and the virtual: memorialization on social networking websites

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Curtis
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Networking Websites ◽  
Memorial Sites ◽  
New Media Technologies

"The shift towards online communication has impacted many aspects of our lives, in that we increasingly use the internet in ways that have a lasting impact on our lived experience. One of the ways this impact occurs is through the virtual manifestation of phenomena related to death. Customs related to death - such as funerals and memorials - are being remediated on the internet in ways that are varied and complex. Remediation, a term introduced by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, involves the reinvention of previous forms of media using new media technologies.1 In this way, every form of media is understood to be a new version of a form of media that already existed. Looking at sites of memorialization of all kinds through the framework of remediation illuminates the ways that the manifestation of issues related to death and memorialization on the internet has and will continue to both complicate and enhance the ways these sites are experienced and conceptualized by those that visit them. While traditional physical memorial sites have always existed - and will continue to exist - sites of remembrance that appear on the internet are emerging as a complementary medium of memorialization"--From the Introduction.

The Use of Internet by Diasporic Communities for Political Mobilization

2014 ◽  
pp. 893-905
Author(s):  
Maricarmen Sanchez ◽  
Sukumar Ganapati
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Diasporic Community ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Independent Country ◽  
Diasporic Communities

This chapter analyzes how the Internet enables social and political mobilization of diasporic communities. Two diasporic communities—the Eritreans and the Iranians—form the empirical basis. The Eritrean diasporic community has used the Internet in their fight against Ethiopia and in their efforts to establish Eritrea as an independent country. The Iranian diasporic community used social networking, blogging, and other methods to politically mobilize amongst themselves in the host society and to mobilize their fellow countrymen in their homeland in the recent 2009 elections. The case studies illustrate how the Internet enables political mobilization that transcends time and space. Yet, the success of political mobilization depends on the diaspora's relationship with the homeland's government, their ability to create linkages, and their power relations.

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