Functional Recruitment and Talent Selection: U.S. Military Aptitude Test Selection Guide

Author: Wood
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: To reinforce the content presented in the book, this book uses a case study throughout, featuring Fetcorn Company—a top-performing foreign food import distributor. You will meet the company's General Manager, Gonzales, HR Manager,·, other colleagues, and the professional psychologist Jack, among others. In this case, they use functional standards for recruitment, while the author observes how they proceed, particularly the process of recruiting the Head of the Procurement Department. This is a professional recruitment and selection guide that tells you "how to do it," covering everything from advertising and shortlisting to evaluation and the final decision, thoroughly discussing all aspects of functional concepts. Whether you like it or not, the concept of functions is important and necessary. Functions are not only a long-standing mainstream topic but also the principle upon which many HR policies and practices rely, and they build a framework that can integrate and coordinate everything. Functions can not only serve the above functions but also cannot be abandoned overnight. The author conducts academic and applied research on different recruitment and selection methods to understand the effectiveness of various approaches. Through the author's diverse experiences, collected from academic and professional research, the best practices in recruitment and selection are gathered, while also exploring practical approaches to implementing new methods in this field. Each chapter in the book can stand alone, so you can read any chapter you want at any time. Of course, the order of the chapters completely aligns with the recruitment and selection process. To reinforce the content presented in the book, this book uses a case study throughout, featuring Fetcorn Company—a top-performing foreign food import distributor. You will meet the company's General Manager, Gonzales, HR Manager,·, other colleagues, and the professional psychologist Jack, among others. In this case, they use functional standards for recruitment, while the author observes how they proceed, particularly the process of recruiting the Head of the Procurement Department.