What recruiting activities would be well suited to outsourcing and why?
Required Readings
Good summary of competencies required of recruiters.
Adler, L. (2014, December 17). 12 Skills every recruiter must master. LinkedIn Talent Blog. Retrieved from https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/2014/12/the-12-skills-every-recruiter-must-master
Summary of the job of Recruiter.
HumanResourcesEDU.org. (n.d.) How to become a human resources recruiter. Retrieved from http://www.humanresourcesedu.org/hr-recruiter/
Required Readings About Staffing Technology
BambooHR LLC. (2013). Resumes don’t belong in e-mail: How an applicant racking system streamlines recruiting. Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_QzROs8tjyoS3hCelByWFNLZ1E/edit
Weeks, K. O. (2013). An analysis of human resource information systems impact on employees. Journal of Management Policy & Practice, 14(3), 35-49.
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Mihelich, M. (2014, May). E-recruiting: dead and alive: sourcing job candidates has become easier for recruiters because of Internet job boards, social media and applicant tracking systems–and the job of recruiters has changed because of it. Workforce (Media Tech Publishing, Inc.), 93(5), 44.
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Blacksmith, N., & Poeppelman, T. (2014). Three ways social media and technology have changed recruitment. TIP: The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 52(1), 114-121.
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Segal, J. A. (2014). The law and social media in hiring. HR Magazine, 59(9), 70-72.
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Optional Readings
Flynn, S. I. (2015). Human resource information systems. Research Starters: Business (Online Edition). http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=89163755&site=eds-live&scope=site
Zielinski, D. (2015). 7 reasons to loathe and love your ATS: thanks to recent advances, the long-maligned applicant tracking system may now be more help than headache. HR Magazine, (8). 30. http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgbe&AN=edsgcl.431197767&site=eds-live&scope=site
Gale, S. F. (2015, April 23). Special report: The new recruits in e-recruiting. Workforce Magazine. Retrieved September 03, 2016, from
http://www.workforce.com/2015/04/23/special-report-the-new-recruits-in-e-recruiting/
Halutzy, H. (2016). The future of recruiting: The art of matchmaking in a world of applicant tracking systems. Workforce Solutions Review, 7(1), 22-23. http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=115176946&site=eds-live&scope=site
Although written in 2005, this article is a good summary of the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing.
Cooke, F. L., Shen, J., & McBride, A. (2005). Outsourcing HR as a competitive strategy? A literature review and an assessment of implications. Human Resource Management, 44(4), 413–432. http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=19001263&site=ehost-live&scope=site
