ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses that there is great variation in the recruitment and selection strategies across firms. It focuses on the comparison between the levels and types of employer investment in extensive and intensive search for high-level versus low-level jobs, and for union versus nonunion positions. The chapter describes the sources of the data used in the analysis. It also describes the extent and type of variation in US firms' recruitment and selection strategies. To investigate the union-nonunion difference more closely, each recruiting source was analyzed individually for statistically significant differences in union-nonunion use. For nonunion workers, the recruiting sources used significantly more frequently include: newspaper advertisements, college recruiting, search firms, private employment agencies, employee referrals, and walk-ins. Skill tests are required of job candidates in the nonunion category significantly more often than in the union category.
