High Tech and High Touch: Headhunting, Technology, and Economic Transformation - Couverture souple

Coverdill, James E.; Finlay, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501702815 ISBN 13 : 9781501702815

Editeur : ILR Press, 2017

Synopsis

In High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals who acquire talent for businesses and other organizations on a contingent-fee basis. In a high-tech world where social media platforms have simplified direct contact between employers and job seekers, Coverdill and Finlay acknowledge, it is relatively easy to find large numbers of apparently qualified candidates. However, the authors demonstrate that headhunters serve a valuable purpose in bringing high-touch search into the labor market: they help parties on both sides of the transaction to define their needs and articulate what they have to offer.

As well as providing valuable information for sociologists and economists, High Tech and High Touch demonstrates how headhunters approach practical issues such as identifying and attracting candidates; how they solicit, secure, and evaluate search assignments from client companies; and how they strive to broker interactions between candidates and clients to maximize the likelihood that the right people land in the right jobs.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

James E. Coverdill is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. He is coauthor with William Finlay of Headhunters, also from Cornell.

William Finlay is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia and the author of Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ILR Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501702815
• ISBN 13: 9781501702815
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
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• Personne responsable: non disponible