Role reversal in apprentices recruiting

Which firms search applicant profiles in a targeted way?

Coverbild: Role reversal in trainee recruiting
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Issue/Year (Volume) 1/2024 (53)
Page(s) 40-42
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The conventional method of recruiting apprentices, in which firms offer apprentice positions via various media and then wait for incoming applications, is becoming less and less likely to lead to success. One promising remedy is a reversed approach which involves the firms themselves searching applicant profiles in online apprenticeship training exchanges in order to find suitable candidates. This article sheds light on the extent to which this procedure now forms part of recruitment practice of firms.

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Mohr, S.; Ebbinghaus, M.: Role reversal in apprentices recruiting. Which firms search applicant profiles in a targeted way? In: BWP 53 (2024) 1, S. 40-42. URL: https://www.bwp-zeitschrift.de/dienst/publikationen/en/19491
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BIBB, B. (Hrsg.) (2024). Role reversal in apprentices recruiting: Which firms search applicant profiles in a targeted way?. Bonn: Franz Steiner Verlag

Additional Material

Electronic supplement: „Logistic regression on the relationship between searching in applicant profiles and firm structural and regional labour market characteristics (average marginal effects, AMEs)“

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