Examining How Local Organizations Recruit Qualified Job Candidates
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2021
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Companies often grapple with issues and practices associated with recruiting qualified job candidates. In this digital era, companies are combining traditional and online recruitment strategies to hire qualified job candidates. Furthermore, a company’s approach toward workplace diversity often plays an influential role in shaping hiring processes in tandem with both traditional and online recruitment strategies. Hawaii’s unique labor market and geographical characteristics could further shape hiring practices among local companies. However, little research has explicitly examined the recruitment strategies employed by local companies here in Hawaii to recruit qualified job candidates. In my thesis, I conducted semi-structured interviews with relevant employees from 15 local companies to further discover how they recruit qualified job candidates for jobs here in Hawaii. Inductive thematic coding analyses indicate mass media platforms, partnerships, referrals, technology-based recruitment strategies, networking, internships, and targeted recruitment strategies as examples of recruitment strategies used by local companies. Furthermore, inductive coding analyses indicated that strategies such as organization b, job fairs, and networking were specific strategies used by local companies to diversify their workplaces. In addition, financial, talent-based, and cultural barriers emerged as challenges faced by local companies in recruiting qualified candidates to work in Hawaii. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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Employees--Recruiting, Employee selection, Diversity in the workplace
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Hawaii
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